Triple

T4220707
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award E94331 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object William E. Kirwan
William E. Kirwan is an American mathematician and higher-education leader who served as chancellor of the University System of Maryland and president of Ohio State University.
 E421151 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 E. Kirwan | Statement: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, William E. Kirwan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William E. Kirwan
Context triple: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, William E. Kirwan]
  • A. William K. Reilly
    William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
  • B. William M. Rice
    William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  • C. Dennis J. Picard
    Dennis J. Picard was a prominent engineer and leader in radar technology whose contributions to the field led the IEEE to name its prestigious Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications in his honor.
  • D. Robert D. Cabana
    Robert D. Cabana is a former NASA astronaut and Marine Corps colonel who later served in senior leadership roles at NASA, including as director of the Kennedy Space Center.
  • E. Neil H. McElroy
    Neil H. McElroy was a U.S. businessman and politician who served as Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, playing a key role in shaping early Cold War defense policy.
  • 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 E. Kirwan
Triple: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, William E. Kirwan]
Generated description
William E. Kirwan is an American mathematician and higher-education leader who served as chancellor of the University System of Maryland and president of Ohio State University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William E. Kirwan
Target entity description: William E. Kirwan is an American mathematician and higher-education leader who served as chancellor of the University System of Maryland and president of Ohio State University.
  • A. William K. Reilly
    William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
  • B. William M. Rice
    William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  • C. Dennis J. Picard
    Dennis J. Picard was a prominent engineer and leader in radar technology whose contributions to the field led the IEEE to name its prestigious Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications in his honor.
  • D. Robert D. Cabana
    Robert D. Cabana is a former NASA astronaut and Marine Corps colonel who later served in senior leadership roles at NASA, including as director of the Kennedy Space Center.
  • E. Neil H. McElroy
    Neil H. McElroy was a U.S. businessman and politician who served as Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, playing a key role in shaping early Cold War defense policy.
  • 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_69b34e0c84548190b051d32d434cbf04 completed March 12, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5963ffacc8190843b60ea1b224f91 completed March 14, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b596b842648190a6f00c37e23e311f 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.