Triple
T1572485
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Engel v. Vitale |
E33570
|
entity |
| Predicate | party |
P1790
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William J. Vitale Jr.
William J. Vitale Jr. was a New York school board president whose role in authorizing a classroom prayer led to his being named as a respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Engel v. Vitale on school-sponsored prayer and the Establishment Clause.
|
E219820
|
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 J. Vitale Jr. | Statement: [Engel v. Vitale, party, William J. Vitale Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. Vitale Jr. Context triple: [Engel v. Vitale, party, William J. Vitale Jr.]
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A.
Dennis J. Picard
Dennis J. Picard was a prominent engineer and leader in radar technology whose contributions to the field led the IEEE to name its prestigious Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications in his honor.
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B.
Daniel P. Higgins
Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Maurice J. Tobin
Maurice J. Tobin was a mid-20th-century American politician who served as mayor of Boston, governor of Massachusetts, and U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Harry S. Truman.
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D.
Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
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E.
Charles F. Roos
Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
- 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 J. Vitale Jr. Triple: [Engel v. Vitale, party, William J. Vitale Jr.]
Generated description
William J. Vitale Jr. was a New York school board president whose role in authorizing a classroom prayer led to his being named as a respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Engel v. Vitale on school-sponsored prayer and the Establishment Clause.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. Vitale Jr. Target entity description: William J. Vitale Jr. was a New York school board president whose role in authorizing a classroom prayer led to his being named as a respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Engel v. Vitale on school-sponsored prayer and the Establishment Clause.
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A.
Dennis J. Picard
Dennis J. Picard was a prominent engineer and leader in radar technology whose contributions to the field led the IEEE to name its prestigious Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications in his honor.
-
B.
Daniel P. Higgins
Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
-
C.
Maurice J. Tobin
Maurice J. Tobin was a mid-20th-century American politician who served as mayor of Boston, governor of Massachusetts, and U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Harry S. Truman.
-
D.
Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
-
E.
Charles F. Roos
Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
- 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_69a885f11b048190935025a035302715 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a908ba6a4081909f75faf470c53d86 |
completed | March 5, 2026, 4:38 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69adfb90e16081908d70df182b7efb8a |
completed | March 8, 2026, 10:43 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69adfc81697c8190b0dd847649f28923 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69adfdc8a7f481909b2ee0b4444cf4b9 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 10:52 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.