Triple

T2382314
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom C. Clark E46336 entity
Predicate precededBy (as Attorney General) P38395 FINISHED
Object Francis Biddle
Francis Biddle was an American lawyer and judge who served as U.S. Attorney General during World War II and later as the primary American judge at the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
E261711 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: Francis Biddle | Statement: [Tom C. Clark, precededBy (as Attorney General), Francis Biddle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Biddle
Context triple: [Tom C. Clark, precededBy (as Attorney General), Francis Biddle]
  • A. Robert H. Jackson
    Robert H. Jackson was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
  • B. John J. McCloy
    John J. McCloy was a prominent American lawyer, banker, and statesman who served in key national security and foreign policy roles, including U.S. High Commissioner for Germany after World War II and president of the World Bank.
  • C. Thurman Arnold
    Thurman Arnold was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal-era antitrust enforcer who served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division and later as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
  • D. Allen Dulles
    Allen Dulles was an American diplomat and intelligence officer who became the longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence, playing a central role in shaping U.S. Cold War espionage and covert operations.
  • E. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
    Nicholas deB. Katzenbach was an American lawyer and government official who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson and played a key role in enforcing civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
  • 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: Francis Biddle
Triple: [Tom C. Clark, precededBy (as Attorney General), Francis Biddle]
Generated description
Francis Biddle was an American lawyer and judge who served as U.S. Attorney General during World War II and later as the primary American judge at the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Biddle
Target entity description: Francis Biddle was an American lawyer and judge who served as U.S. Attorney General during World War II and later as the primary American judge at the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
  • A. Robert H. Jackson
    Robert H. Jackson was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
  • B. John J. McCloy
    John J. McCloy was a prominent American lawyer, banker, and statesman who served in key national security and foreign policy roles, including U.S. High Commissioner for Germany after World War II and president of the World Bank.
  • C. Thurman Arnold
    Thurman Arnold was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal-era antitrust enforcer who served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division and later as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
  • D. Allen Dulles
    Allen Dulles was an American diplomat and intelligence officer who became the longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence, playing a central role in shaping U.S. Cold War espionage and covert operations.
  • E. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
    Nicholas deB. Katzenbach was an American lawyer and government official who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson and played a key role in enforcing civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: precededBy (as Attorney General)
Context triple: [Tom C. Clark, precededBy (as Attorney General), Francis Biddle]
  • A. wasPrecededBy
    Indicates that one event, state, or entity occurred or existed earlier in time than another.
  • B. precededByAsHomeSecretary
    Indicates that one individual previously held the position of Home Secretary before another individual.
  • C. precededBy (Acting CFPB Director)
    Indicates that one entity held the role of Acting CFPB Director before another entity in a temporal or succession order.
  • D. startTime (as Attorney General)
    Indicates the date and time at which an individual began serving in the role of Attorney General.
  • E. precededBy (Governor of Tennessee)
    Indicates that one entity held the position of Governor of Tennessee before another entity, establishing a temporal order of officeholders.
  • 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_69a88a1554a48190a0180682bcf099be completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc7b98c988190abdb4fe51bf65bde completed March 7, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea8b4f85c81909e5a4eda271b73ca completed March 9, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeac747e488190aea9b1831ea748a8 completed March 9, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeadb6008481909bf1e5d1210a58b8 completed March 9, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69abc59f73f08190924a36d7d475d8f4 completed March 7, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69abc6f4245881909282b3184a288e2a completed March 7, 2026, 6:34 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.