Triple
T3878481
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Clark McReynolds |
E92561
|
entity |
| Predicate | succeededBy |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Thomas Watt Gregory
Thomas Watt Gregory was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
|
E397847
|
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: Thomas Watt Gregory | Statement: [James Clark McReynolds, succeededBy, Thomas Watt Gregory]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Watt Gregory Context triple: [James Clark McReynolds, succeededBy, Thomas Watt Gregory]
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A.
Gordon Hodgkin
Gordon Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that often evoked emotional and remembered interiors.
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B.
Alexander Cowper Hutchison
Alexander Cowper Hutchison was a prominent 19th-century Canadian architect known for designing significant public and institutional buildings in Montreal.
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C.
William Maxwell Aitken
William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
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D.
William Bowen Campbell
William Bowen Campbell was a 19th-century American politician and military officer who served as governor of Tennessee and fought in both the Mexican–American War and the Civil War.
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E.
George Cowan
George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
- 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: Thomas Watt Gregory Triple: [James Clark McReynolds, succeededBy, Thomas Watt Gregory]
Generated description
Thomas Watt Gregory was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Watt Gregory Target entity description: Thomas Watt Gregory was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
-
A.
Gordon Hodgkin
Gordon Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that often evoked emotional and remembered interiors.
-
B.
Alexander Cowper Hutchison
Alexander Cowper Hutchison was a prominent 19th-century Canadian architect known for designing significant public and institutional buildings in Montreal.
-
C.
William Maxwell Aitken
William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
-
D.
William Bowen Campbell
William Bowen Campbell was a 19th-century American politician and military officer who served as governor of Tennessee and fought in both the Mexican–American War and the Civil War.
-
E.
George Cowan
George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
- 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_69aed967448c819086c4b358d37b25aa |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeec72fa7c81909c73b3cf90597e9a |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b51c87214881908e03f5c770c58713 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:29 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b51d51e52881908f798b12ee123d69 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:33 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b51dba68fc8190b02b0ca47f4f7803 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:35 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.