Triple
T3399476
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project |
E71612
|
entity |
| Predicate | describesPerson |
P264
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James B. Conant |
E8903
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 B. Conant | Statement: [Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project, describesPerson, James B. Conant]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James B. Conant Context triple: [Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project, describesPerson, James B. Conant]
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A.
James B. Conant
chosen
James B. Conant was an American chemist, educator, and diplomat who served as president of Harvard University and played a major role in U.S. scientific and military policy during World War II.
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B.
Charles W. Eliot
Charles W. Eliot was a prominent American academic and long-serving president of Harvard University who played a major role in modernizing higher education in the United States.
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C.
Daniel Coit Gilman
Daniel Coit Gilman was an influential American educator and the first president of Johns Hopkins University, known for shaping the modern research university model in the United States.
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D.
William Maynard Hutchins
William Maynard Hutchins is an American translator and scholar best known for translating major works of modern Arabic literature, including Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy.
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E.
Stilson Hutchins
Stilson Hutchins was an American newspaper publisher best known as the founder of The Washington Post.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad85aac4808190a092c9cc8911f584 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb8c6b2b08190a307e33c74cf21ad |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b34bd01e108190995dcd3cb8ead793 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:27 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.