Triple

T2431330
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shaw University E52851 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
E294044 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 E. Cheek | Statement: [Shaw University, hasNotableAlumni, James E. Cheek]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James E. Cheek
Context triple: [Shaw University, hasNotableAlumni, James E. Cheek]
  • A. Richard T. Rives
    Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
  • B. Milton J. Durham
    Milton J. Durham was a 19th-century American lawyer and Democratic politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as a senior federal financial official.
  • C. Delbert D. Black
    Delbert D. Black was a United States Navy sailor who became the first senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, helping to shape the modern role and voice of enlisted personnel in the Navy.
  • D. William C. Reynolds
    William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
  • E. Julius L. Chambers
    Julius L. Chambers was a prominent American civil rights attorney, educator, and former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, known for his pivotal role in school desegregation and anti-discrimination litigation.
  • 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 E. Cheek
Triple: [Shaw University, hasNotableAlumni, James E. Cheek]
Generated description
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James E. Cheek
Target entity description: James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
  • A. Richard T. Rives
    Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
  • B. Milton J. Durham
    Milton J. Durham was a 19th-century American lawyer and Democratic politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as a senior federal financial official.
  • C. Delbert D. Black
    Delbert D. Black was a United States Navy sailor who became the first senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, helping to shape the modern role and voice of enlisted personnel in the Navy.
  • D. William C. Reynolds
    William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
  • E. Julius L. Chambers
    Julius L. Chambers was a prominent American civil rights attorney, educator, and former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, known for his pivotal role in school desegregation and anti-discrimination litigation.
  • 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_69ab4959bcc0819083246f9fb10439e3 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc9c767a88190b31cbccdce8e8982 completed March 7, 2026, 6:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afbbad005881909797050a2dfc3d38 completed March 10, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afbc1ea9d88190a95dff358ae6f1b9 completed March 10, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afbc77c524819083eec069d2ecc88b completed March 10, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:43 p.m.