Triple

T2097317
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lamar Alexander E37010 entity
Predicate precededBy (Governor of Tennessee) P35934 FINISHED
Object Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
E276250 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Ray Blanton | Statement: [Lamar Alexander, precededBy (Governor of Tennessee), Ray Blanton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ray Blanton
Context triple: [Lamar Alexander, precededBy (Governor of Tennessee), Ray Blanton]
  • A. Don Robinson
    Don Robinson is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his role as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Rich Barton
    Rich Barton is an American entrepreneur best known for founding influential online companies including Expedia, Zillow, and the workplace review platform Glassdoor.
  • C. Bucky Harris
    Bucky Harris was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager and second baseman best known for leading the Washington Senators to the 1924 World Series championship as their young player-manager.
  • D. Curt Menefee
    Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
  • E. Ray Cusick
    Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • 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: Ray Blanton
Triple: [Lamar Alexander, precededBy (Governor of Tennessee), Ray Blanton]
Generated description
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ray Blanton
Target entity description: Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
  • A. Don Robinson
    Don Robinson is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his role as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Rich Barton
    Rich Barton is an American entrepreneur best known for founding influential online companies including Expedia, Zillow, and the workplace review platform Glassdoor.
  • C. Bucky Harris
    Bucky Harris was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager and second baseman best known for leading the Washington Senators to the 1924 World Series championship as their young player-manager.
  • D. Curt Menefee
    Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
  • E. Ray Cusick
    Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: precededBy (Governor of Tennessee)
Context triple: [Lamar Alexander, precededBy (Governor of Tennessee), Ray Blanton]
  • A. hadGovernor
    Indicates that an administrative region or political entity was governed by a specific person who held the office of governor.
  • B. succeededBy (Governor of Pennsylvania)
    Indicates that one individual directly follows another in holding the office of Governor of Pennsylvania.
  • C. succeededBy (Governor of Virginia)
    Indicates that one individual directly followed another in holding the office of Governor of Virginia.
  • D. precededAsVicePresidentBy
    Indicates that one entity served as vice president immediately before another entity in a sequence of officeholders.
  • E. precededInSenateBy
    Indicates that one officeholder directly held a given Senate seat before another officeholder, in terms of succession to that seat.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69a8861828948190924aa30c08806b3a completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abba9cb84481909fe0a66c020b8864 completed March 7, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af5cbcf8dc8190a3319bdf58dce307 completed March 9, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5d4795288190bb09c1a928e70b3e completed March 9, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5dca88948190b0b195bce7126891 completed March 9, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69abb7b6274081909df36cd7a7c6a675 completed March 7, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69abba2e65b48190bb19cfc4b0f8c462 completed March 7, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.