Triple

T4758032
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States v. One Book Called Ulysses E105634 entity
Predicate judge P3169 FINISHED
Object John M. Woolsey
John M. Woolsey was a U.S. federal judge best known for his landmark 1933 decision lifting the ban on James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses" and reshaping American obscenity law.
E775531 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 M. Woolsey | Statement: [United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, judge, John M. Woolsey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John M. Woolsey
Context triple: [United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, judge, John M. Woolsey]
  • A. John H. Vreeland
    John H. Vreeland was an American lawyer and Republican politician from New Jersey who served as a state senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Charles F. Roos
    Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
  • C. William M. Conselman
    William M. Conselman was an American screenwriter and occasional director best known for his work on early 20th-century Hollywood films and for co-creating the comic strip "Ella Cinders."
  • D. John W. Richardson
    John W. Richardson is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the action thriller film "Non-Stop" starring Liam Neeson.
  • E. Alden B. Dow
    Alden B. Dow was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his innovative modernist designs and his association with the organic architecture movement.
  • 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 M. Woolsey
Triple: [United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, judge, John M. Woolsey]
Generated description
John M. Woolsey was a U.S. federal judge best known for his landmark 1933 decision lifting the ban on James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses" and reshaping American obscenity law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John M. Woolsey
Target entity description: John M. Woolsey was a U.S. federal judge best known for his landmark 1933 decision lifting the ban on James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses" and reshaping American obscenity law.
  • A. John H. Vreeland
    John H. Vreeland was an American lawyer and Republican politician from New Jersey who served as a state senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Charles F. Roos
    Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
  • C. William M. Conselman
    William M. Conselman was an American screenwriter and occasional director best known for his work on early 20th-century Hollywood films and for co-creating the comic strip "Ella Cinders."
  • D. John W. Richardson
    John W. Richardson is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the action thriller film "Non-Stop" starring Liam Neeson.
  • E. Alden B. Dow
    Alden B. Dow was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his innovative modernist designs and his association with the organic architecture movement.
  • 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_69bd43f14cac819081c7c69803648211 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd650ad0f88190844bfcb46b3071c2 completed March 20, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cffd37b54881908c67d5746f9ef39e completed April 3, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfff51b8c0819093b2c348fd7819fe completed April 3, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0014b9c108190b4abe8c974677d31 completed April 3, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:20 p.m.