Triple

T2857864
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flint water crisis E63245 entity
Predicate involvesPerson P1256 FINISHED
Object Marc Edwards
Marc Edwards is an American civil and environmental engineer known for exposing and documenting the lead contamination and government failures in the Flint water crisis.
E308344 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: Marc Edwards | Statement: [Flint water crisis, involvesPerson, Marc Edwards]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marc Edwards
Context triple: [Flint water crisis, involvesPerson, Marc Edwards]
  • A. Steve Edwards
    Steve Edwards is the benefactor after whom Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge is named.
  • B. Timothy Edwards
    Timothy Edwards was a colonial New England Congregational minister and scholar, best known as the father of theologian Jonathan Edwards.
  • C. Ryan Edwards
    Ryan Edwards is a professional footballer best known as an English defender who has played for several clubs in the English Football League and Scottish Premiership.
  • D. Wade Edwards
    Wade Edwards was the son of former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, whose death as a teenager deeply influenced his father's personal and political life.
  • E. Aaron Ogden
    Aaron Ogden was an early 19th-century American politician and steamboat operator whose state-granted monopoly became the focus of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which helped define federal power over interstate commerce.
  • 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: Marc Edwards
Triple: [Flint water crisis, involvesPerson, Marc Edwards]
Generated description
Marc Edwards is an American civil and environmental engineer known for exposing and documenting the lead contamination and government failures in the Flint water crisis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marc Edwards
Target entity description: Marc Edwards is an American civil and environmental engineer known for exposing and documenting the lead contamination and government failures in the Flint water crisis.
  • A. Steve Edwards
    Steve Edwards is the benefactor after whom Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge is named.
  • B. Timothy Edwards
    Timothy Edwards was a colonial New England Congregational minister and scholar, best known as the father of theologian Jonathan Edwards.
  • C. Ryan Edwards
    Ryan Edwards is a professional footballer best known as an English defender who has played for several clubs in the English Football League and Scottish Premiership.
  • D. Wade Edwards
    Wade Edwards was the son of former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, whose death as a teenager deeply influenced his father's personal and political life.
  • E. Aaron Ogden
    Aaron Ogden was an early 19th-century American politician and steamboat operator whose state-granted monopoly became the focus of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which helped define federal power over interstate commerce.
  • 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_69ab4c41e8c08190a9e8f5249cc12610 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdf89d3b4819086936f26d8683a2a completed March 7, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b03147229c81909e2f47f1ec40633d completed March 10, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b031c2edb08190bc86dc639eee9272 completed March 10, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b039a5d7748190a44b878a5be62f54 completed March 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.