Triple

T18105648
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hawaiian Kingdom cabinet ministers E433339 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object William DeWitt Alexander NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 DeWitt Alexander | Statement: [Hawaiian Kingdom cabinet ministers, positionHeldBy, William DeWitt Alexander]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William DeWitt Alexander
Context triple: [Hawaiian Kingdom cabinet ministers, positionHeldBy, William DeWitt Alexander]
  • A. William Alexander Clarke
    William Alexander Clarke, better known as Alexander Bustamante, was a Jamaican labor leader and politician who became the country’s first prime minister after independence.
  • B. Thomas Dewitt
    Thomas Dewitt is an individual whose name is a spelling variant of Thomas De Witt, likely referring to the same person across different records or sources.
  • C. John J. Herrick
    John J. Herrick was a U.S. Navy officer who commanded American naval forces involved in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, a pivotal event that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • D. William Stetson Merrill
    William Stetson Merrill was an American librarian and classification theorist known for his influential work on library book classification and subject headings in the early 20th century.
  • E. Joseph D. Grant
    Joseph D. Grant was a prominent California rancher and businessman whose legacy is commemorated by the large Santa Clara County park that bears his name.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William DeWitt Alexander
Target entity description: William DeWitt Alexander was a 19th-century American-born educator, historian, and government official who became a prominent cabinet minister and intellectual figure in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
  • A. William Alexander Clarke
    William Alexander Clarke, better known as Alexander Bustamante, was a Jamaican labor leader and politician who became the country’s first prime minister after independence.
  • B. Thomas Dewitt
    Thomas Dewitt is an individual whose name is a spelling variant of Thomas De Witt, likely referring to the same person across different records or sources.
  • C. John J. Herrick
    John J. Herrick was a U.S. Navy officer who commanded American naval forces involved in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, a pivotal event that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • D. William Stetson Merrill
    William Stetson Merrill was an American librarian and classification theorist known for his influential work on library book classification and subject headings in the early 20th century.
  • E. Joseph D. Grant
    Joseph D. Grant was a prominent California rancher and businessman whose legacy is commemorated by the large Santa Clara County park that bears his name.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8b90916008190a1f110bd7ced5473 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ddb9981c8190b33697fbcaa901b3 completed April 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:28 a.m.