Triple

T1466257
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert A. Taft E27028 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Howard Taft III
William Howard Taft III was an American diplomat and academic who notably served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland in the mid-20th century.
E184805 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: William Howard Taft III | Statement: [Robert A. Taft, child, William Howard Taft III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howard Taft III
Context triple: [Robert A. Taft, child, William Howard Taft III]
  • A. President William Howard Taft
    President William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, known for his trust-busting policies, later service as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and significant administrative reforms.
  • B. Taft
    Taft is a small oil-producing city in southwestern Kern County, California, known historically for its role in the petroleum industry.
  • C. Alphonso Taft
    Alphonso Taft was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War, and was the father of President William Howard Taft.
  • D. Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes was an American statesman and jurist who served as governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court justice and later chief justice, and U.S. secretary of state, and was the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
  • E. Paul V. McNutt
    Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
  • 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: William Howard Taft III
Triple: [Robert A. Taft, child, William Howard Taft III]
Generated description
William Howard Taft III was an American diplomat and academic who notably served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howard Taft III
Target entity description: William Howard Taft III was an American diplomat and academic who notably served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland in the mid-20th century.
  • A. President William Howard Taft
    President William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, known for his trust-busting policies, later service as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and significant administrative reforms.
  • B. Taft
    Taft is a small oil-producing city in southwestern Kern County, California, known historically for its role in the petroleum industry.
  • C. Alphonso Taft
    Alphonso Taft was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War, and was the father of President William Howard Taft.
  • D. Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes was an American statesman and jurist who served as governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court justice and later chief justice, and U.S. secretary of state, and was the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
  • E. Paul V. McNutt
    Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
  • 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_69a496d25d6881909dbd84f86d763992 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5bb4e288190997c7e8985e9a2bd completed March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad58b0be2c8190993a5b4592acf7d2 completed March 8, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad5a3e7d008190870770ea16909a6a completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad5ad5f50c81908541eb94bb1236b6 completed March 8, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.