Triple

T2464018
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle off Samar E55200 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Clifton A. F. Sprague
Clifton A. F. Sprague was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and World War II carrier task group commander renowned for his leadership of "Taffy 3" during the Battle off Samar.
E690195 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: Clifton A. F. Sprague | Statement: [Battle off Samar, commander, Clifton A. F. Sprague]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clifton A. F. Sprague
Context triple: [Battle off Samar, commander, Clifton A. F. Sprague]
  • A. Franklin C. Sibert
    Franklin C. Sibert was a U.S. Army lieutenant general and World War II corps commander noted for leading American forces in major Pacific campaigns.
  • B. Edwin T. Meredith
    Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • C. Charles R. Fenwick
    Charles R. Fenwick was a Virginia lawyer and long-serving state legislator known for his influence on transportation policy, for whom the Charles R. Fenwick Bridge is named.
  • D. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • E. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • 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: Clifton A. F. Sprague
Triple: [Battle off Samar, commander, Clifton A. F. Sprague]
Generated description
Clifton A. F. Sprague was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and World War II carrier task group commander renowned for his leadership of "Taffy 3" during the Battle off Samar.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clifton A. F. Sprague
Target entity description: Clifton A. F. Sprague was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and World War II carrier task group commander renowned for his leadership of "Taffy 3" during the Battle off Samar.
  • A. Franklin C. Sibert
    Franklin C. Sibert was a U.S. Army lieutenant general and World War II corps commander noted for leading American forces in major Pacific campaigns.
  • B. Edwin T. Meredith
    Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • C. Charles R. Fenwick
    Charles R. Fenwick was a Virginia lawyer and long-serving state legislator known for his influence on transportation policy, for whom the Charles R. Fenwick Bridge is named.
  • D. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • E. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • 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_69ab49e3622c8190ad22afa2c4fbb807 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd12059788190a6493f64bb725aed completed March 7, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c922a0d2688190982714e2e409465d completed March 29, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c92300ecc88190a33dd96299bf3d1c completed March 29, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c9235aa9fc8190bcb027749231dfdd completed March 29, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.