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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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D.
Curt Menefee
Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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A.
hadGovernor
Indicates that an administrative region or political entity was governed by a specific person who held the office of governor.
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B.
succeededBy (Governor of Pennsylvania)
Indicates that one individual directly follows another in holding the office of Governor of Pennsylvania.
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C.
succeededBy (Governor of Virginia)
Indicates that one individual directly followed another in holding the office of Governor of Virginia.
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D.
precededAsVicePresidentBy
Indicates that one entity served as vice president immediately before another entity in a sequence of officeholders.
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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.