Triple

T4966172
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Phelps Taft II E111531 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Taft
Taft is a prominent American family name most famously associated with U.S. President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft and his politically influential relatives.
 E483155 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: Taft | Statement: [Charles Phelps Taft II, familyName, Taft]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Taft
Context triple: [Charles Phelps Taft II, familyName, Taft]
  • A. Taft
    Taft is a coastal municipality in the province of Eastern Samar in the Philippines.
  • B. Taft
    Taft is a small oil-producing city in southwestern Kern County, California, known historically for its role in the petroleum industry.
  • C. William Howard Taft III
    William Howard Taft III was an American diplomat and academic who notably served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland in the mid-20th century.
  • D. President William Howard Taft
    President William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, known for his trust-busting policies, later service as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and significant administrative reforms.
  • E. Horace Dwight Taft
    Horace Dwight Taft was an American educator best known as the founder and long-time headmaster of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.
  • 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: Taft
Triple: [Charles Phelps Taft II, familyName, Taft]
Generated description
Taft is a prominent American family name most famously associated with U.S. President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft and his politically influential relatives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Taft
Target entity description: Taft is a prominent American family name most famously associated with U.S. President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft and his politically influential relatives.
  • A. Taft
    Taft is a small oil-producing city in southwestern Kern County, California, known historically for its role in the petroleum industry.
  • B. Taft
    Taft is a coastal municipality in the province of Eastern Samar in the Philippines.
  • C. William Howard Taft III
    William Howard Taft III was an American diplomat and academic who notably served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland in the mid-20th century.
  • D. President William Howard Taft
    President William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, known for his trust-busting policies, later service as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and significant administrative reforms.
  • E. Horace Dwight Taft
    Horace Dwight Taft was an American educator best known as the founder and long-time headmaster of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.
  • 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_69bd4419393c819086319a6fe4bf8542 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd71f7ae388190b752770bf577906f completed March 20, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be81f13988819097dcd5a65cb1f502 completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be83b10e048190889289ac2ca9f07f completed March 21, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be843e2e50819099b2b73498c7c16e completed March 21, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.