Triple
T241788
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign |
E4945
|
entity |
| Predicate | runningMate |
P1793
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine is an American Democratic politician and U.S. senator from Virginia who served as Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2016 election and is known for his prior roles as Virginia governor and lieutenant governor.
|
E35808
|
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: Tim Kaine | Statement: [Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, runningMate, Tim Kaine]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tim Kaine Context triple: [Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, runningMate, Tim Kaine]
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A.
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
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B.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Jean Faircloth
Jean Faircloth was an American socialite best known as the second wife of General Douglas MacArthur, accompanying him throughout much of his military and postwar career.
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D.
Martin O’Malley
Martin O’Malley is an American Democratic politician and former governor of Maryland who ran for his party’s presidential nomination in 2016.
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E.
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is the Vice President of the United States and a former U.S. senator from California, known for being the first woman, first Black American, and first South Asian American to hold the vice presidency.
- 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: Tim Kaine Triple: [Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, runningMate, Tim Kaine]
Generated description
Tim Kaine is an American Democratic politician and U.S. senator from Virginia who served as Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2016 election and is known for his prior roles as Virginia governor and lieutenant governor.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tim Kaine Target entity description: Tim Kaine is an American Democratic politician and U.S. senator from Virginia who served as Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2016 election and is known for his prior roles as Virginia governor and lieutenant governor.
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A.
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
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B.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Jean Faircloth
Jean Faircloth was an American socialite best known as the second wife of General Douglas MacArthur, accompanying him throughout much of his military and postwar career.
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D.
Martin O’Malley
Martin O’Malley is an American Democratic politician and former governor of Maryland who ran for his party’s presidential nomination in 2016.
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E.
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is the Vice President of the United States and a former U.S. senator from California, known for being the first woman, first Black American, and first South Asian American to hold the vice presidency.
- F. None of above. chosen
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: runningMate Context triple: [Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, runningMate, Tim Kaine]
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A.
runningMateOfNominee
chosen
Indicates that one individual is the officially selected vice-presidential (or secondary) candidate running together on the same ticket with a primary nominee.
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B.
vicePresidentElect
Indicates that the subject is the person chosen to become vice president of the object (such as a country or organization) but has not yet assumed the office.
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C.
electoralVoteRunnerUp
Indicates that the subject is the candidate who received the second-highest number of electoral votes in a given election.
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D.
republicanNominee
Indicates that the subject is the officially selected Republican Party candidate for the specified office or election.
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E.
democraticNominee
Indicates that one entity is the officially selected Democratic Party candidate for the position or role associated with the other entity.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (6 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_69a257c3d0708190b0871c4269d273e6 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25d35aa288190966b6e15af1525cb |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:12 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3914b6cb08190ae5413f46aedc23f |
completed | March 1, 2026, 1:07 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a391b2c8088190bbbdf1f29c13f826 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 1:09 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a39217ae2c819082fef73a105edf7d |
completed | March 1, 2026, 1:10 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69a25b60ad308190b12f119960a8bde7 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:05 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.