Triple

T1728867
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Earl Butz E37563 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Butz
Butz is a surname most notably associated with Earl Butz, a controversial U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in the 1970s.
 E195286 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: Butz | Statement: [Earl Butz, familyName, Butz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Butz
Context triple: [Earl Butz, familyName, Butz]
  • A. Bube
    Bube is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bubi people on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea.
  • B. Phog
    Phog is the nickname of Forrest "Phog" Allen, a Hall of Fame basketball coach widely regarded as the "Father of Basketball Coaching" and a legendary figure at the University of Kansas.
  • C. Bud
    Bud is the longtime nickname of Allan H. "Bud" Selig, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
  • D. Birs
    The Birs is a river in northwestern Switzerland that flows through the Jura region before joining the Rhine near Basel.
  • E. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • 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: Butz
Triple: [Earl Butz, familyName, Butz]
Generated description
Butz is a surname most notably associated with Earl Butz, a controversial U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in the 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Butz
Target entity description: Butz is a surname most notably associated with Earl Butz, a controversial U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in the 1970s.
  • A. Bube
    Bube is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bubi people on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea.
  • B. Phog
    Phog is the nickname of Forrest "Phog" Allen, a Hall of Fame basketball coach widely regarded as the "Father of Basketball Coaching" and a legendary figure at the University of Kansas.
  • C. Bud
    Bud is the longtime nickname of Allan H. "Bud" Selig, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
  • D. Birs
    The Birs is a river in northwestern Switzerland that flows through the Jura region before joining the Rhine near Basel.
  • E. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • 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_69a8861acab88190bb43cde203429399 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa637da7048190a06f2eec6cb87f70 completed March 6, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8af6b034819087f6d168b9f5249a completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad979ce880819089daecbc8455ec84 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad9ba92a848190918a8748fb65348a completed March 8, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.