Triple

T2733996
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John McCain III E60384 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object John S. McCain Jr.
John S. McCain Jr. was a United States Navy admiral who served as Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific Command during the Vietnam War and was the son and father of prominent military figures.
E180417 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: John S. McCain Jr. | Statement: [John McCain III, father, John S. McCain Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John S. McCain Jr.
Context triple: [John McCain III, father, John S. McCain Jr.]
  • A. John McCain
    John McCain was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and Vietnam War veteran who became his party’s nominee for president in 2008.
  • B. John S. McCain Sr.
    John S. McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral and World War II carrier task force commander who played a key role in Pacific theater operations.
  • C. Quayle
    Quayle is the surname of Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States who served under President George H. W. Bush.
  • D. John Warner
    John Warner was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy known for his influential role in national defense and bipartisan politics.
  • E. Porter Goss
    Porter Goss is an American politician and former CIA officer who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and as a U.S. Representative from Florida.
  • 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: John S. McCain Jr.
Triple: [John McCain III, father, John S. McCain Jr.]
Generated description
John S. McCain Jr. was a United States Navy admiral who served as Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific Command during the Vietnam War and was the son and father of prominent military figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John S. McCain Jr.
Target entity description: John S. McCain Jr. was a United States Navy admiral who served as Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific Command during the Vietnam War and was the son and father of prominent military figures.
  • A. John McCain
    John McCain was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and Vietnam War veteran who became his party’s nominee for president in 2008.
  • B. John S. McCain Sr. chosen
    John S. McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral and World War II carrier task force commander who played a key role in Pacific theater operations.
  • C. Quayle
    Quayle is the surname of Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States who served under President George H. W. Bush.
  • D. John Warner
    John Warner was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy known for his influential role in national defense and bipartisan politics.
  • E. Porter Goss
    Porter Goss is an American politician and former CIA officer who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and as a U.S. Representative from Florida.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ab4b75cd908190b691ef0d1801acda completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdb0e7b888190bfa5d2e33f00ec0f completed March 7, 2026, 8 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afbbc430ec8190a54f805cd0067b97 completed March 10, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afbc545dc48190b61ed2ee73d53737 completed March 10, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afbcd39c608190b01924370208f1ec completed March 10, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.