Triple

T3760898
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Washington Post Company E82156 entity
Predicate chairperson P377 FINISHED
Object Donald E. Graham
Donald E. Graham is an American businessman and publisher best known for leading The Washington Post through significant periods of journalistic and corporate transformation.
 E385836 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: Donald E. Graham | Statement: [The Washington Post Company, chairperson, Donald E. Graham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald E. Graham
Context triple: [The Washington Post Company, chairperson, Donald E. Graham]
  • A. Don Graham
    Don Graham is a real estate developer best known for his role in creating Honolulu’s Ala Moana Center, one of the largest open-air shopping malls in the world.
  • B. Robert R. McCormick
    Robert R. McCormick was a prominent American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his influential role in 20th-century journalism and conservative politics.
  • C. Walter Annenberg
    Walter Annenberg was an American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat known for building a media empire and making major contributions to education and the arts.
  • D. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • E. Philip Burton
    Philip Burton was a Welsh schoolteacher and drama coach best known for discovering and mentoring the future acclaimed actor Richard Burton.
  • 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: Donald E. Graham
Triple: [The Washington Post Company, chairperson, Donald E. Graham]
Generated description
Donald E. Graham is an American businessman and publisher best known for leading The Washington Post through significant periods of journalistic and corporate transformation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald E. Graham
Target entity description: Donald E. Graham is an American businessman and publisher best known for leading The Washington Post through significant periods of journalistic and corporate transformation.
  • A. Don Graham
    Don Graham is a real estate developer best known for his role in creating Honolulu’s Ala Moana Center, one of the largest open-air shopping malls in the world.
  • B. Robert R. McCormick
    Robert R. McCormick was a prominent American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his influential role in 20th-century journalism and conservative politics.
  • C. Walter Annenberg
    Walter Annenberg was an American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat known for building a media empire and making major contributions to education and the arts.
  • D. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • E. Philip Burton
    Philip Burton was a Welsh schoolteacher and drama coach best known for discovering and mentoring the future acclaimed actor Richard Burton.
  • 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_69ad8b1db40081908b61ffa6b78afd4d completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcbc553a08190ba361675901496ed completed March 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4e5172abc81909cfa709ea866dc57 completed March 14, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4e65f868c819099b4fbf129773e6d completed March 14, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4e6bc95cc8190852b833e111cd889 completed March 14, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:35 p.m.