Triple
T2069517
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | George Washington Goethals |
E45982
|
entity |
| Predicate | parentOf |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
George R. Goethals
George R. Goethals is the son of U.S. Army engineer and Panama Canal chief engineer George Washington Goethals.
|
E45982
|
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: George R. Goethals | Statement: [George Washington Goethals, parentOf, George R. Goethals]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George R. Goethals Context triple: [George Washington Goethals, parentOf, George R. Goethals]
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A.
George Washington Goethals
George Washington Goethals was a U.S. Army engineer and administrator best known for overseeing the construction and early operation of the Panama Canal.
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B.
Charles L. Phillippi
Charles L. Phillippi, better known as Deacon Phillippe, was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his key role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the inaugural 1903 World Series.
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C.
G. R. Stilwell
G. R. Stilwell was a physicist known for co-conducting the Ives–Stilwell experiment, a key early test of special relativity’s time dilation and relativistic Doppler effect.
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D.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
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E.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
- 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: George R. Goethals Triple: [George Washington Goethals, parentOf, George R. Goethals]
Generated description
George R. Goethals is the son of U.S. Army engineer and Panama Canal chief engineer George Washington Goethals.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George R. Goethals Target entity description: George R. Goethals is the son of U.S. Army engineer and Panama Canal chief engineer George Washington Goethals.
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A.
George Washington Goethals
chosen
George Washington Goethals was a U.S. Army engineer and administrator best known for overseeing the construction and early operation of the Panama Canal.
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B.
Charles L. Phillippi
Charles L. Phillippi, better known as Deacon Phillippe, was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his key role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the inaugural 1903 World Series.
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C.
G. R. Stilwell
G. R. Stilwell was a physicist known for co-conducting the Ives–Stilwell experiment, a key early test of special relativity’s time dilation and relativistic Doppler effect.
-
D.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
-
E.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
- F. None of above.
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_69a8891b38288190abd572ccad9b6928 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb9f51a008190aead0173a9289204 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:39 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae30547b288190ab9466686f749768 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ae30f6b7c4819080cb7cb7adc1f6d3 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:31 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ae31849d7c8190a4e3c90334bf21a5 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:33 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.