Triple

T1476454
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sumner Welles E30852 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Benjamin Sumner Welles
Benjamin Sumner Welles was a prominent American diplomat who served as U.S. Under Secretary of State and a key architect of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s foreign policy during the World War II era.
E216195 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: Benjamin Sumner Welles | Statement: [Sumner Welles, fullName, Benjamin Sumner Welles]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Sumner Welles
Context triple: [Sumner Welles, fullName, Benjamin Sumner Welles]
  • A. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • B. John P. Hale
    John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
  • C. Henry J. F. Brown
    Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
  • D. Horace White
    Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. William Barstow Strong
    William Barstow Strong was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive who served as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway during a major period of expansion.
  • 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: Benjamin Sumner Welles
Triple: [Sumner Welles, fullName, Benjamin Sumner Welles]
Generated description
Benjamin Sumner Welles was a prominent American diplomat who served as U.S. Under Secretary of State and a key architect of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s foreign policy during the World War II era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Sumner Welles
Target entity description: Benjamin Sumner Welles was a prominent American diplomat who served as U.S. Under Secretary of State and a key architect of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s foreign policy during the World War II era.
  • A. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • B. John P. Hale
    John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
  • C. Henry J. F. Brown
    Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
  • D. Horace White
    Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. William Barstow Strong
    William Barstow Strong was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive who served as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway during a major period of expansion.
  • 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_69a498fe55a88190ab7f9e40ace88e49 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c603f9e88190b340734709534860 completed March 1, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3b07b688190a0c90796da21c4d5 completed March 8, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf51bec408190add5915bf4a328c6 completed March 8, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf5f57f30819081f7911ded62a061 completed March 8, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.