Triple
T20308555
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jim Nicholson (American politician) |
E510168
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entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
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FINISHED |
| Object | United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
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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: United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Statement: [Jim Nicholson (American politician), positionHeld, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs Context triple: [Jim Nicholson (American politician), positionHeld, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs]
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A.
United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
chosen
The United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the Cabinet-level official who leads the Department of Veterans Affairs, overseeing federal programs and services for military veterans and their families.
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B.
Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
The Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the second-highest official in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, responsible for overseeing its day-to-day operations and implementing policies that serve military veterans and their families.
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C.
Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs
The Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs is the senior executive responsible for overseeing the department’s financial management, budgeting, and fiscal policy to support services for U.S. veterans.
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D.
Chief Information Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs
The Chief Information Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs is the senior executive responsible for overseeing the agency’s information technology strategy, systems, cybersecurity, and digital services that support U.S. military veterans.
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E.
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’ Employment and Training
The Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’ Employment and Training is a senior U.S. Department of Labor official responsible for overseeing programs and policies that help military veterans transition to and succeed in civilian employment.
- 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_69e0b4c7491c8190961113c4283b10b0 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e677411cf08190ba7e98a4135b643a |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:58 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:18 a.m.