Triple
T3932771
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Cohen |
E90832
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfDefenseBy |
P52610
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Perry
William Perry is a former U.S. Secretary of Defense and mathematician known for his leadership in defense modernization and nuclear security policy during the Clinton administration.
|
E399603
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (5 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: William Perry | Statement: [William Cohen, precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfDefenseBy, William Perry]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Perry Context triple: [William Cohen, precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfDefenseBy, William Perry]
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A.
William Perry
William Perry, nicknamed "The Refrigerator," is a former NFL defensive tackle best known for his larger-than-life personality and key role on the dominant mid-1980s Chicago Bears.
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B.
Ralph Barton Perry
Ralph Barton Perry was an American philosopher best known for his work in realism and value theory, and for his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of William James.
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C.
John Perry
John Perry is an American poet, essayist, and cyberlibertarian activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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D.
Peter A. Carruthers
Peter A. Carruthers was a theoretical physicist known for his work in particle physics and for helping establish the Santa Fe Institute as a center for interdisciplinary complexity research.
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E.
Melvin Fitting
Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
- 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: William Perry Triple: [William Cohen, precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfDefenseBy, William Perry]
Generated description
William Perry is a former U.S. Secretary of Defense and mathematician known for his leadership in defense modernization and nuclear security policy during the Clinton administration.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Perry Target entity description: William Perry is a former U.S. Secretary of Defense and mathematician known for his leadership in defense modernization and nuclear security policy during the Clinton administration.
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A.
William Perry
William Perry, nicknamed "The Refrigerator," is a former NFL defensive tackle best known for his larger-than-life personality and key role on the dominant mid-1980s Chicago Bears.
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B.
Ralph Barton Perry
Ralph Barton Perry was an American philosopher best known for his work in realism and value theory, and for his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of William James.
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C.
John Perry
John Perry is an American poet, essayist, and cyberlibertarian activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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D.
Peter A. Carruthers
Peter A. Carruthers was a theoretical physicist known for his work in particle physics and for helping establish the Santa Fe Institute as a center for interdisciplinary complexity research.
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E.
Melvin Fitting
Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
- F. None of above. chosen
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfDefenseBy Context triple: [William Cohen, precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfDefenseBy, William Perry]
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A.
precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfStateBy
Indicates that one person assumed the role of Secretary of State after another specific person, who held the office immediately before them.
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B.
hasUSSecretaryOfDefense
Indicates that an entity has, or is associated with, a specific individual serving in the role of United States Secretary of Defense.
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C.
presidentDuringDefenseSecretaryTenure
Indicates that the subject person was the president of a country during the time period in which the object person served as that country’s defense secretary.
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D.
predecessorAsChiefOfTheDefenceForce
Indicates that one entity previously held the position of Chief of the Defence Force immediately before the other entity.
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E.
precededAsVicePresidentBy
Indicates that one entity served as vice president immediately before another entity in a sequence of officeholders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (7 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_69aed95f26e0819094b0e71974543a19 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeedaaf3c881909539831bf3a8bf10 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:56 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b52887d4a48190b51df3f51ff197c0 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 9:21 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b529a1486881908ff348558199232b |
completed | March 14, 2026, 9:25 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b52a43c6f081908366d9848728f98a |
completed | March 14, 2026, 9:28 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69aee7625ad4819097e4e8a168c19274 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:29 p.m. |
| PDg | Predicate description generation | batch_69aeed3260cc8190bf294bdab507b1f9 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:54 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:23 p.m.