Triple
T4384689
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Howard Dean |
E99212
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy (Chair of the DNC) |
P21017
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe is an American Democratic politician, fundraiser, and businessman who served as governor of Virginia and has been a prominent figure in national party politics.
|
E436509
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (5 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: Terry McAuliffe | Statement: [Howard Dean, precededBy (Chair of the DNC), Terry McAuliffe]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry McAuliffe Context triple: [Howard Dean, precededBy (Chair of the DNC), Terry McAuliffe]
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A.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis was an American comedy writer and performer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for co-creating the recurring "Coneheads" characters.
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B.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a pioneering company in high-performance 3D graphics and computing.
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C.
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell is an American Republican politician and attorney who served as the 71st Governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014.
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D.
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine is an American Democratic politician and U.S. senator from Virginia who served as Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2016 election and is known for his prior roles as Virginia governor and lieutenant governor.
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E.
Raynal C. Bolling
Raynal C. Bolling was a pioneering U.S. Army Air Service officer and prominent corporate lawyer who helped organize American air power in World War I before being killed in action in France.
- 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: Terry McAuliffe Triple: [Howard Dean, precededBy (Chair of the DNC), Terry McAuliffe]
Generated description
Terry McAuliffe is an American Democratic politician, fundraiser, and businessman who served as governor of Virginia and has been a prominent figure in national party politics.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry McAuliffe Target entity description: Terry McAuliffe is an American Democratic politician, fundraiser, and businessman who served as governor of Virginia and has been a prominent figure in national party politics.
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A.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis was an American comedy writer and performer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for co-creating the recurring "Coneheads" characters.
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B.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a pioneering company in high-performance 3D graphics and computing.
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C.
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell is an American Republican politician and attorney who served as the 71st Governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014.
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D.
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine is an American Democratic politician and U.S. senator from Virginia who served as Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2016 election and is known for his prior roles as Virginia governor and lieutenant governor.
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E.
Raynal C. Bolling
Raynal C. Bolling was a pioneering U.S. Army Air Service officer and prominent corporate lawyer who helped organize American air power in World War I before being killed in action in France.
- F. None of above. chosen
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: precededBy (Chair of the DNC) Context triple: [Howard Dean, precededBy (Chair of the DNC), Terry McAuliffe]
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A.
precededByOfficeHolder
chosen
Indicates that one office holder directly held a position before another office holder in a sequence of occupants of the same office.
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B.
precededBy (Governor of Tennessee)
Indicates that one entity held the position of Governor of Tennessee before another entity, establishing a temporal order of officeholders.
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C.
precededBy (Acting CFPB Director)
Indicates that one entity held the role of Acting CFPB Director before another entity in a temporal or succession order.
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D.
wasPrecededBy
Indicates that one event, state, or entity occurred or existed earlier in time than another.
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E.
precededInSenateBy
Indicates that one officeholder directly held a given Senate seat before another officeholder, in terms of succession to that seat.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (6 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_69b3454f739481909ff6c28331f0c0b9 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b35263970c8190904ee20d81715833 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5e523cc5c8190b9884f83d433982c |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b5eeaf35348190a1611f5b04baed1f |
completed | March 14, 2026, 11:26 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b5ef5c7e0c819080b0e8914dcd6568 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 11:29 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69b34f572efc8190bad1e5078cbcb75a |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:42 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.