Triple

T4219322
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Assistant Secretary of War E94299 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.