Triple

T16453294
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Love in Black and White E399608 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object William Cohen
William Cohen is an American politician and author who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense and has written several books, including the memoir "Love in Black and White."
E90832 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 Cohen | Statement: [Love in Black and White, author, William Cohen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cohen
Context triple: [Love in Black and White, author, William Cohen]
  • A. William Cohen
    William Cohen is an American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton and previously as a U.S. Senator from Maine.
  • B. Frank Carlucci
    Frank Carlucci was an American politician and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan before later becoming a prominent business executive.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Ted Mondale
    Ted Mondale is an American politician and businessman from Minnesota, known as the son of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale and for his service in the Minnesota Senate and various public leadership roles.
  • E. John Warner
    John Warner was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy known for his influential role in national defense and bipartisan politics.
  • 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 Cohen
Triple: [Love in Black and White, author, William Cohen]
Generated description
William Cohen is an American politician and author who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense and has written several books, including the memoir "Love in Black and White."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cohen
Target entity description: William Cohen is an American politician and author who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense and has written several books, including the memoir "Love in Black and White."
  • A. William Cohen chosen
    William Cohen is an American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton and previously as a U.S. Senator from Maine.
  • B. Frank Carlucci
    Frank Carlucci was an American politician and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan before later becoming a prominent business executive.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Ted Mondale
    Ted Mondale is an American politician and businessman from Minnesota, known as the son of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale and for his service in the Minnesota Senate and various public leadership roles.
  • E. John Warner
    John Warner was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy known for his influential role in national defense and bipartisan politics.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d87f2c6778819080fcfae53be8f12a completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32ce259d88190803930051409d72c completed April 18, 2026, 7:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a006ed25bcc819090ccca4705e4e24f completed May 10, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a006f9043b8819086143b2ec0cf1657 completed May 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00701fc1848190b3248a70b462eab1 completed May 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:10 a.m.