Triple
T1430998
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Alberto Gonzales |
E30444
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush and previously as a U.S. senator from Missouri.
|
E164962
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John Ashcroft | Statement: [Alberto Gonzales, precededBy, John Ashcroft]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ashcroft Context triple: [Alberto Gonzales, precededBy, John Ashcroft]
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A.
Eric Holder
Eric Holder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd United States Attorney General, becoming the first African American to hold that office.
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B.
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales is an American lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General who served in the George W. Bush administration and was the first Hispanic person to hold that office.
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C.
Porter Goss
Porter Goss is an American politician and former CIA officer who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and as a U.S. Representative from Florida.
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D.
John Dean
John Dean is a former White House Counsel best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal and his testimony against President Richard Nixon.
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E.
Andrew Card
Andrew Card is an American politician and government official best known for serving as White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John Ashcroft Triple: [Alberto Gonzales, precededBy, John Ashcroft]
Generated description
John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush and previously as a U.S. senator from Missouri.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ashcroft Target entity description: John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush and previously as a U.S. senator from Missouri.
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A.
Eric Holder
Eric Holder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd United States Attorney General, becoming the first African American to hold that office.
-
B.
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales is an American lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General who served in the George W. Bush administration and was the first Hispanic person to hold that office.
-
C.
Porter Goss
Porter Goss is an American politician and former CIA officer who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and as a U.S. Representative from Florida.
-
D.
John Dean
John Dean is a former White House Counsel best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal and his testimony against President Richard Nixon.
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E.
Andrew Card
Andrew Card is an American politician and government official best known for serving as White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69a498fc69ec8190b61722bd4b67c4d2 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c4dc3e2081909ff951fe73db277b |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad08b5ba94819092e66e8dfd6bf87d |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ad09f7609481908ce2f77da55461be |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:32 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ad0a4a1f80819099bfef26ad0ab428 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:34 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.