Triple
T18340054
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Peter H. Watson |
E439375
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entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
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FINISHED |
| Object | Assistant Secretary of War of the United States |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Assistant Secretary of War of the United States | Statement: [Peter H. Watson, positionHeld, Assistant Secretary of War of the United States]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Assistant Secretary of War of the United States Context triple: [Peter H. Watson, positionHeld, Assistant Secretary of War of the United States]
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A.
Assistant Secretary of War
chosen
The Assistant Secretary of War was a senior U.S. government official responsible for overseeing key aspects of Army administration, logistics, and wartime operations before the Department of War was reorganized into the Department of Defense.
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B.
United States Under Secretary of War
The United States Under Secretary of War was a senior civilian official in the U.S. War Department responsible for assisting in the administration and coordination of the Army, particularly during World War II.
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C.
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War
The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War was the senior civil servant responsible for overseeing the administration and day-to-day operations of the British Army within the United Kingdom government.
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D.
Assistant Secretary of the Army
The Assistant Secretary of the Army is a senior civilian official in the U.S. Department of the Army responsible for overseeing major policy, budgetary, and administrative functions within their assigned portfolio.
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E.
Secretary of War
The Secretary of War was a former U.S. Cabinet-level official responsible for overseeing the Army and managing the nation’s military affairs before the creation of the Department of Defense.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e50ed146fc819092b08cb91defb03b |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:20 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.