Triple

T1579475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cactus Air Force E33727 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object John S. McCain Sr.
John S. McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral and World War II carrier task force commander who played a key role in Pacific theater operations.
E180417 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 S. McCain Sr. | Statement: [Cactus Air Force, notableCommander, John S. McCain Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John S. McCain Sr.
Context triple: [Cactus Air Force, notableCommander, John S. McCain Sr.]
  • A. Prescott Bush Jr.
    Prescott Bush Jr. was an American businessman and investment banker, and the brother of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
  • B. John McCain
    John McCain was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and Vietnam War veteran who became his party’s nominee for president in 2008.
  • C. Prescott Bush
    Prescott Bush was an American investment banker and Republican U.S. Senator from Connecticut, best known as the patriarch of the Bush political family and father of President George H. W. Bush.
  • D. Franklin McCain
    Franklin McCain was a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
  • E. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • 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 S. McCain Sr.
Triple: [Cactus Air Force, notableCommander, John S. McCain Sr.]
Generated description
John S. McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral and World War II carrier task force commander who played a key role in Pacific theater operations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John S. McCain Sr.
Target entity description: John S. McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral and World War II carrier task force commander who played a key role in Pacific theater operations.
  • A. Prescott Bush Jr.
    Prescott Bush Jr. was an American businessman and investment banker, and the brother of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
  • B. John McCain
    John McCain was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and Vietnam War veteran who became his party’s nominee for president in 2008.
  • C. Prescott Bush
    Prescott Bush was an American investment banker and Republican U.S. Senator from Connecticut, best known as the patriarch of the Bush political family and father of President George H. W. Bush.
  • D. Franklin McCain
    Franklin McCain was a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
  • E. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69a885f27a4c8190a4622252cdf54c00 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a908d67bd08190afa8c504ed5273ee completed March 5, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad4698cde88190a113cb7cebc3df1e completed March 8, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad47189b388190acd217b2ba37533b completed March 8, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad47ffc5088190aeba84f6d92ff86f completed March 8, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.