Triple

T518111
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William T. Sampson E10752 entity
Predicate hasName P744 FINISHED
Object William Thomas Sampson
William Thomas Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for commanding American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
E214885 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 Thomas Sampson | Statement: [William T. Sampson, hasName, William Thomas Sampson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas Sampson
Context triple: [William T. Sampson, hasName, William Thomas Sampson]
  • A. William R. Day
    William R. Day was an American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who played a key role in ending the Spanish–American War.
  • B. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • C. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • D. Charles L. Phillippi
    Charles L. Phillippi, better known as Deacon Phillippe, was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his key role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the inaugural 1903 World Series.
  • E. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • 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 Thomas Sampson
Triple: [William T. Sampson, hasName, William Thomas Sampson]
Generated description
William Thomas Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for commanding American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas Sampson
Target entity description: William Thomas Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for commanding American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
  • A. William R. Day
    William R. Day was an American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who played a key role in ending the Spanish–American War.
  • B. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • C. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • D. Charles L. Phillippi
    Charles L. Phillippi, better known as Deacon Phillippe, was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his key role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the inaugural 1903 World Series.
  • E. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • 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_69a2e84a0d08819087e01863fcd9abf1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f19d81d48190bd65a02059fc8473 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf39f5694819086fcdbd27fa2ea4b completed March 8, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf471909881909de20d9d1fa0b372 completed March 8, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf50b17a081909b93ad3e08c71772 completed March 8, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.