Triple
T4219322
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Assistant Secretary of War |
E94299
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHeldBy |
P537
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FINISHED |
| Object |
John A. Rawlins
John A. Rawlins was a Union Army general and close confidant of Ulysses S. Grant who played a key role in Civil War military administration and later served in Grant’s presidential cabinet.
|
E421033
|
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: John A. Rawlins | Statement: [Assistant Secretary of War, officeHeldBy, John A. Rawlins]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. Rawlins Context triple: [Assistant Secretary of War, officeHeldBy, John A. Rawlins]
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A.
Henry B. Carrington
Henry B. Carrington was a U.S. Army officer and frontier commander best known for leading forces during Red Cloud's War in the 1860s.
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B.
John Taylor Johnston
John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
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C.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
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D.
Benjamin Titus Roberts
Benjamin Titus Roberts was a 19th-century American Methodist minister and reformer best known for leading the holiness movement that resulted in the formation of the Free Methodist Church.
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E.
William G. Fargo
William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
- 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: John A. Rawlins Triple: [Assistant Secretary of War, officeHeldBy, John A. Rawlins]
Generated description
John A. Rawlins was a Union Army general and close confidant of Ulysses S. Grant who played a key role in Civil War military administration and later served in Grant’s presidential cabinet.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. Rawlins Target entity description: John A. Rawlins was a Union Army general and close confidant of Ulysses S. Grant who played a key role in Civil War military administration and later served in Grant’s presidential cabinet.
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A.
Henry B. Carrington
Henry B. Carrington was a U.S. Army officer and frontier commander best known for leading forces during Red Cloud's War in the 1860s.
-
B.
John Taylor Johnston
John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
-
C.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
-
D.
Benjamin Titus Roberts
Benjamin Titus Roberts was a 19th-century American Methodist minister and reformer best known for leading the holiness movement that resulted in the formation of the Free Methodist Church.
-
E.
William G. Fargo
William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
- 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_69b3451997e08190851db4a9a588837d |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b34e0b2ee08190930600e1e802b325 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:36 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5963d3bd8819086465701f4c6adf5 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 5:09 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b596dbb19c81908080af37ecfe2497 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 5:11 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b5976663d88190a73a729554e91074 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 5:14 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:04 p.m.