Triple

T4819888
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frederic T. Greenhalge E107683 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object William E. Russell
William E. Russell was a late 19th-century Democratic politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts before being succeeded by Frederic T. Greenhalge.
E483216 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. Russell | Statement: [Frederic T. Greenhalge, precededBy, William E. Russell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William E. Russell
Context triple: [Frederic T. Greenhalge, precededBy, William E. Russell]
  • A. William Huntington Russell
    William Huntington Russell was a 19th-century American educator and Yale alumnus best known as a co-founder of the secret society Skull and Bones.
  • B. William H. Russell
    William H. Russell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express mail service.
  • C. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • D. Lewis G. Stevenson
    Lewis G. Stevenson was an American politician and public official from Illinois, known for his role in the prominent Stevenson political family.
  • E. Charles R. Ferrell
    Charles R. Ferrell was a key Baylor University figure and benefactor for whom the Ferrell Center arena in Waco, Texas, is named.
  • 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. Russell
Triple: [Frederic T. Greenhalge, precededBy, William E. Russell]
Generated description
William E. Russell was a late 19th-century Democratic politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts before being succeeded by Frederic T. Greenhalge.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William E. Russell
Target entity description: William E. Russell was a late 19th-century Democratic politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts before being succeeded by Frederic T. Greenhalge.
  • A. William Huntington Russell
    William Huntington Russell was a 19th-century American educator and Yale alumnus best known as a co-founder of the secret society Skull and Bones.
  • B. William H. Russell
    William H. Russell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express mail service.
  • C. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • D. Lewis G. Stevenson
    Lewis G. Stevenson was an American politician and public official from Illinois, known for his role in the prominent Stevenson political family.
  • E. Charles R. Ferrell
    Charles R. Ferrell was a key Baylor University figure and benefactor for whom the Ferrell Center arena in Waco, Texas, is named.
  • 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_69bd43f9efa081908314cb3e94fa1695 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c98358081908ed43425af667a98 completed March 20, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be81ad41848190bb86aee50b33ca75 completed March 21, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be82dcc280819098eac824370b1af0 completed March 21, 2026, 11:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be8349507481908643591de7f03f42 completed March 21, 2026, 11:38 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:24 p.m.