Triple

T2341243
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McKelvey School of Engineering E45030 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object James McKelvey Sr.
James McKelvey Sr. was an influential engineer and academic whose legacy is honored through the naming of Washington University in St. Louis’s McKelvey School of Engineering.
 E259215 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: James McKelvey Sr. | Statement: [McKelvey School of Engineering, namedAfter, James McKelvey Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James McKelvey Sr.
Context triple: [McKelvey School of Engineering, namedAfter, James McKelvey Sr.]
  • A. William McSweeny
    William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
  • B. Edgar Buchanan
    Edgar Buchanan was an American character actor best known for his roles in classic film westerns and the television series "Petticoat Junction."
  • C. Charles McEvers Jr.
    Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • D. Thomas McKay
    Thomas McKay was a 19th-century Scottish-born Canadian stonemason, entrepreneur, and early industrialist who played a key role in the development of Ottawa.
  • E. John Graham Sr.
    John Graham Sr. was an American architect and businessman best known for establishing the influential architectural firm John Graham & Company, which designed numerous prominent commercial buildings in the 20th century.
  • 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: James McKelvey Sr.
Triple: [McKelvey School of Engineering, namedAfter, James McKelvey Sr.]
Generated description
James McKelvey Sr. was an influential engineer and academic whose legacy is honored through the naming of Washington University in St. Louis’s McKelvey School of Engineering.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James McKelvey Sr.
Target entity description: James McKelvey Sr. was an influential engineer and academic whose legacy is honored through the naming of Washington University in St. Louis’s McKelvey School of Engineering.
  • A. William McSweeny
    William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
  • B. Edgar Buchanan
    Edgar Buchanan was an American character actor best known for his roles in classic film westerns and the television series "Petticoat Junction."
  • C. Charles McEvers Jr.
    Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • D. Thomas McKay
    Thomas McKay was a 19th-century Scottish-born Canadian stonemason, entrepreneur, and early industrialist who played a key role in the development of Ottawa.
  • E. John Graham Sr.
    John Graham Sr. was an American architect and businessman best known for establishing the influential architectural firm John Graham & Company, which designed numerous prominent commercial buildings in the 20th century.
  • 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_69a88917935081909b755dbf38e81024 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc6abf1688190b7c404de0979149a completed March 7, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae961fd8748190a82ca4c4b840d9f6 completed March 9, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae980425b0819092477f5cf9816d65 completed March 9, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae9bef58f881908161d143369ba11a completed March 9, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:52 p.m.