Triple

T19040816
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States House delegation from Maine E465994 entity
Predicate notableFormerMember P1168 FINISHED
Object John R. McKernan Jr. — 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: John R. McKernan Jr. | Statement: [United States House delegation from Maine, notableFormerMember, John R. McKernan Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John R. McKernan Jr.
Context triple: [United States House delegation from Maine, notableFormerMember, John R. McKernan Jr.]
  • A. John R. McKernan Jr. chosen
    John R. McKernan Jr. is an American Republican politician and businessman who served as governor of Maine from 1987 to 1995 and earlier as a U.S. Representative.
  • B. William A. McGonagle
    William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
  • C. James T. McNamara
    James T. McNamara was a public official who served as New York State's Industrial Commissioner, overseeing labor and industry-related policies and regulations.
  • D. John T. McKennan
    John T. McKennan was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from New York who served as a state senator and later as a judge.
  • E. James B. McNamara
    James B. McNamara was an American labor union activist best known for his role in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, a pivotal event in early 20th-century labor history.
  • 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_69d8dd0359648190bc2a9202c5cf29d2 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d80054c88190a9d3a49aed504235 completed April 20, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:02 p.m.