Triple

T4195954
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Alabama System E89153 entity
Predicate hasChancellor P325 FINISHED
Object Finis E. St. John IV
Finis E. St. John IV is an American attorney and higher-education administrator who has served as chancellor of the University of Alabama System.
E420387 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: Finis E. St. John IV | Statement: [University of Alabama System, hasChancellor, Finis E. St. John IV]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Finis E. St. John IV
Context triple: [University of Alabama System, hasChancellor, Finis E. St. John IV]
  • A. Theodore St. John
    Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
  • B. John Vassall Jr.
    John Vassall Jr. was an 18th-century Loyalist landowner in colonial Massachusetts whose former mansion later became the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site.
  • C. Giles S. Rich
    Giles S. Rich was a highly influential American jurist and patent law expert who helped shape modern U.S. patent jurisprudence, including co-authoring the 1952 Patent Act.
  • D. Charles Faulkner
    Charles Faulkner was a 19th-century British designer and partner in the influential Arts and Crafts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
  • E. Dudley Field Malone
    Dudley Field Malone was an American lawyer, politician, and civil liberties advocate best known for his role on the defense team in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial challenging laws against teaching evolution.
  • 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: Finis E. St. John IV
Triple: [University of Alabama System, hasChancellor, Finis E. St. John IV]
Generated description
Finis E. St. John IV is an American attorney and higher-education administrator who has served as chancellor of the University of Alabama System.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Finis E. St. John IV
Target entity description: Finis E. St. John IV is an American attorney and higher-education administrator who has served as chancellor of the University of Alabama System.
  • A. Theodore St. John
    Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
  • B. John Vassall Jr.
    John Vassall Jr. was an 18th-century Loyalist landowner in colonial Massachusetts whose former mansion later became the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site.
  • C. Giles S. Rich
    Giles S. Rich was a highly influential American jurist and patent law expert who helped shape modern U.S. patent jurisprudence, including co-authoring the 1952 Patent Act.
  • D. Charles Faulkner
    Charles Faulkner was a 19th-century British designer and partner in the influential Arts and Crafts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
  • E. Dudley Field Malone
    Dudley Field Malone was an American lawyer, politician, and civil liberties advocate best known for his role on the defense team in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial challenging laws against teaching evolution.
  • 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_69aed9569a4481908b6c1fcec2a11e21 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af035e87148190a0f0bf48b813ffaa completed March 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b58a0d7fa88190a2c830e298542068 completed March 14, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58a9497b88190a46afd8b1996fed9 completed March 14, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58b26e4208190b4ec30a3b635194b completed March 14, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:46 p.m.