Triple

T4438828
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alston & Bird E95717 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Philip H. Alston Sr.
Philip H. Alston Sr. was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent national law firm Alston & Bird.
E439934 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: Philip H. Alston Sr. | Statement: [Alston & Bird, foundedBy, Philip H. Alston Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip H. Alston Sr.
Context triple: [Alston & Bird, foundedBy, Philip H. Alston Sr.]
  • A. Alois B. Richardson
    Alois B. Richardson was an early settler and influential figure in the development of the community that became the city of Richardson, Texas.
  • B. Ronald J. Williams
    Ronald J. Williams is a computer scientist known for his influential contributions to neural networks and machine learning, particularly in the development of backpropagation and reinforcement learning algorithms.
  • C. Arland D. Williams Jr.
    Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
  • D. Philip B. Heymann
    Philip B. Heymann was an American legal scholar and former high-ranking U.S. Justice Department official known for his work in criminal law, national security, and public service.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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: Philip H. Alston Sr.
Triple: [Alston & Bird, foundedBy, Philip H. Alston Sr.]
Generated description
Philip H. Alston Sr. was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent national law firm Alston & Bird.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip H. Alston Sr.
Target entity description: Philip H. Alston Sr. was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent national law firm Alston & Bird.
  • A. Alois B. Richardson
    Alois B. Richardson was an early settler and influential figure in the development of the community that became the city of Richardson, Texas.
  • B. Ronald J. Williams
    Ronald J. Williams is a computer scientist known for his influential contributions to neural networks and machine learning, particularly in the development of backpropagation and reinforcement learning algorithms.
  • C. Arland D. Williams Jr.
    Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
  • D. Philip B. Heymann
    Philip B. Heymann was an American legal scholar and former high-ranking U.S. Justice Department official known for his work in criminal law, national security, and public service.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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_69b3453ea2b48190a26f154b3b8fece5 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b355aaa9288190b95d875d343d6ee5 completed March 13, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6137b97748190b8ebecaf590baad3 completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b615aea38481908ffe37feadeb9a4b completed March 15, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b61601898c81908e108f475f4b35d3 completed March 15, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:31 p.m.