Triple

T2237565
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West Virginia University E49315 entity
Predicate president P8 FINISHED
Object E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee is a longtime American university administrator best known for serving multiple terms as president of several major institutions, including West Virginia University, Ohio State University, and Vanderbilt University.
 E306902 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: E. Gordon Gee | Statement: [West Virginia University, president, E. Gordon Gee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: E. Gordon Gee
Context triple: [West Virginia University, president, E. Gordon Gee]
  • A. Stephen S. Oswald
    Stephen S. Oswald is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
  • B. R. K. Pierson
    R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • C. Stephen F. Martin
    Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
  • D. J. Elwin Wright
    J. Elwin Wright was an American evangelical leader and organizer best known for helping to unite U.S. evangelical groups into a national coalition in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • 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: E. Gordon Gee
Triple: [West Virginia University, president, E. Gordon Gee]
Generated description
E. Gordon Gee is a longtime American university administrator best known for serving multiple terms as president of several major institutions, including West Virginia University, Ohio State University, and Vanderbilt University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: E. Gordon Gee
Target entity description: E. Gordon Gee is a longtime American university administrator best known for serving multiple terms as president of several major institutions, including West Virginia University, Ohio State University, and Vanderbilt University.
  • A. Stephen S. Oswald
    Stephen S. Oswald is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
  • B. R. K. Pierson
    R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • C. Stephen F. Martin
    Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
  • D. J. Elwin Wright
    J. Elwin Wright was an American evangelical leader and organizer best known for helping to unite U.S. evangelical groups into a national coalition in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69a88aa84bdc819086df50e9c20b301e completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc096c7748190a545cc9b229bde62 completed March 7, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b030fc819c8190a1bd9bba49760fec completed March 10, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b034d9140881909800f0f052fb4f83 completed March 10, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b035b102b081908b0d9f272ab9c1b1 completed March 10, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.