Triple

T4219324
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Assistant Secretary of War E94299 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object William Cary Sanger
William Cary Sanger was an American lawyer and politician who served in the early 20th century U.S. War Department and was involved in military and governmental affairs.
E421034 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: William Cary Sanger | Statement: [Assistant Secretary of War, officeHeldBy, William Cary Sanger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cary Sanger
Context triple: [Assistant Secretary of War, officeHeldBy, William Cary Sanger]
  • A. William L Whittaker
    William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
  • B. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • C. Stephen Hodgkin
    Stephen Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the Hodgkin surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
  • D. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
    Christopher Longuet-Higgins was a British theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work in artificial intelligence and the study of human perception and cognition.
  • E. James Watson
    James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
  • 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 Cary Sanger
Triple: [Assistant Secretary of War, officeHeldBy, William Cary Sanger]
Generated description
William Cary Sanger was an American lawyer and politician who served in the early 20th century U.S. War Department and was involved in military and governmental affairs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cary Sanger
Target entity description: William Cary Sanger was an American lawyer and politician who served in the early 20th century U.S. War Department and was involved in military and governmental affairs.
  • A. William L Whittaker
    William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
  • B. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • C. Stephen Hodgkin
    Stephen Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the Hodgkin surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
  • D. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
    Christopher Longuet-Higgins was a British theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work in artificial intelligence and the study of human perception and cognition.
  • E. James Watson
    James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
  • 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.