Triple

T488318
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Board of Treasury E9928 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object John Lewis Gervais
John Lewis Gervais was an American Revolutionary-era politician and public official who served in national financial administration and helped shape early United States governance.
E76761 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 Lewis Gervais | Statement: [Board of Treasury, notableMember, John Lewis Gervais]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lewis Gervais
Context triple: [Board of Treasury, notableMember, John Lewis Gervais]
  • A. John Lewis
    John Lewis was a 19th-century American businessman and early prominent resident of Independence, Missouri, known for his association with the historic Bingham-Waggoner Estate.
  • B. John Lewis
    John Lewis was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime U.S. congressman known for his nonviolent activism, including his leadership in the Selma to Montgomery marches.
  • C. Charles Steele Jr.
    Charles Steele Jr. is an American civil rights leader and politician best known for his longtime leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the historic organization once led by Martin Luther King Jr.
  • D. Arthur C. Walker Jr.
    Arthur C. Walker Jr. was an American physicist and solar scientist known for his pioneering work in X-ray and ultraviolet imaging of the sun and for serving on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. True W. Williams
    True W. Williams was an illustrator known for providing the original illustrations for Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical travel book "Roughing It."
  • 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 Lewis Gervais
Triple: [Board of Treasury, notableMember, John Lewis Gervais]
Generated description
John Lewis Gervais was an American Revolutionary-era politician and public official who served in national financial administration and helped shape early United States governance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lewis Gervais
Target entity description: John Lewis Gervais was an American Revolutionary-era politician and public official who served in national financial administration and helped shape early United States governance.
  • A. John Lewis
    John Lewis was a 19th-century American businessman and early prominent resident of Independence, Missouri, known for his association with the historic Bingham-Waggoner Estate.
  • B. John Lewis
    John Lewis was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime U.S. congressman known for his nonviolent activism, including his leadership in the Selma to Montgomery marches.
  • C. Charles Steele Jr.
    Charles Steele Jr. is an American civil rights leader and politician best known for his longtime leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the historic organization once led by Martin Luther King Jr.
  • D. Arthur C. Walker Jr.
    Arthur C. Walker Jr. was an American physicist and solar scientist known for his pioneering work in X-ray and ultraviolet imaging of the sun and for serving on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. True W. Williams
    True W. Williams was an illustrator known for providing the original illustrations for Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical travel book "Roughing It."
  • 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_69a2e802e2908190ab17c9479e0b6412 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f0df764481909811d9483dfbc4aa completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a533bc40ac81908426b70366259a3b completed March 2, 2026, 6:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a54eac42f08190bc4c0330f5058b6d completed March 2, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5503543908190ba0345fecda77952 completed March 2, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.