Triple

T15575879
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sunlight Foundation E374368 entity
Predicate notableProject P4 FINISHED
Object OpenCongress
OpenCongress was a public, open-source website that aggregated and explained U.S. congressional data to help citizens track legislation, votes, and lawmakers.
E1164604 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: OpenCongress | Statement: [Sunlight Foundation, notableProject, OpenCongress]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: OpenCongress
Context triple: [Sunlight Foundation, notableProject, OpenCongress]
  • A. ParlView
    ParlView is the Australian Parliament’s official online streaming and video service that provides live and archived coverage of parliamentary proceedings and related events.
  • B. Congress.gov
    Congress.gov is the official U.S. federal legislative information website that provides access to bills, resolutions, legislative activities, and related congressional records.
  • C. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
    The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is an official reference work that provides authoritative biographical information on every person who has served in the U.S. Congress.
  • D. Table of Representatives
    The Table of Representatives is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislative body that serves as the counterpart to the upper-house Table of Magnates.
  • E. U.S. politicians
    U.S. politicians are elected or appointed public officials who serve in the federal, state, or local governments of the United States, shaping laws and public policy.
  • 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: OpenCongress
Triple: [Sunlight Foundation, notableProject, OpenCongress]
Generated description
OpenCongress was a public, open-source website that aggregated and explained U.S. congressional data to help citizens track legislation, votes, and lawmakers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: OpenCongress
Target entity description: OpenCongress was a public, open-source website that aggregated and explained U.S. congressional data to help citizens track legislation, votes, and lawmakers.
  • A. ParlView
    ParlView is the Australian Parliament’s official online streaming and video service that provides live and archived coverage of parliamentary proceedings and related events.
  • B. Congress.gov
    Congress.gov is the official U.S. federal legislative information website that provides access to bills, resolutions, legislative activities, and related congressional records.
  • C. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
    The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is an official reference work that provides authoritative biographical information on every person who has served in the U.S. Congress.
  • D. Table of Representatives
    The Table of Representatives is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislative body that serves as the counterpart to the upper-house Table of Magnates.
  • E. U.S. politicians
    U.S. politicians are elected or appointed public officials who serve in the federal, state, or local governments of the United States, shaping laws and public policy.
  • 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_69d85ccd575081908909b71a3f3e3a61 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e2140388190a8df7b835eaa72ce completed April 16, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff4c4978ec8190a57de5d9a2ec6653 completed May 9, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff4d0678648190b61fbe79a60da8ec completed May 9, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff4d9258148190b21201bb09e16999 completed May 9, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.