Triple

T5298791
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William States Lee College of Engineering E119922 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William States Lee
William States Lee was an influential American engineer and energy industry leader whose contributions to power generation and engineering education led to a major engineering college being named in his honor.
E511991 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 States Lee | Statement: [William States Lee College of Engineering, namedAfter, William States Lee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William States Lee
Context triple: [William States Lee College of Engineering, namedAfter, William States Lee]
  • A. Rowland V. Lee
    Rowland V. Lee was an American film director, producer, and actor best known for his work on classic Hollywood adventure and horror films in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. William Grady Little
    William Grady Little is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for managing the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 2000s.
  • C. Emory S. Land
    Emory S. Land was a U.S. naval officer and engineer best known for overseeing submarine construction and serving as a key maritime administrator during World War II.
  • D. John J. DaNang Greene
    John J. "DaNang" Greene was a U.S. military officer known for his leadership role during the Vietnam War, particularly in the protracted and intense fighting around Khe Sanh.
  • E. Henry Ware Lawton
    Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
  • 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 States Lee
Triple: [William States Lee College of Engineering, namedAfter, William States Lee]
Generated description
William States Lee was an influential American engineer and energy industry leader whose contributions to power generation and engineering education led to a major engineering college being named in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William States Lee
Target entity description: William States Lee was an influential American engineer and energy industry leader whose contributions to power generation and engineering education led to a major engineering college being named in his honor.
  • A. Rowland V. Lee
    Rowland V. Lee was an American film director, producer, and actor best known for his work on classic Hollywood adventure and horror films in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. William Grady Little
    William Grady Little is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for managing the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 2000s.
  • C. Emory S. Land
    Emory S. Land was a U.S. naval officer and engineer best known for overseeing submarine construction and serving as a key maritime administrator during World War II.
  • D. John J. DaNang Greene
    John J. "DaNang" Greene was a U.S. military officer known for his leadership role during the Vietnam War, particularly in the protracted and intense fighting around Khe Sanh.
  • E. Henry Ware Lawton
    Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
  • 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_69bd446f22b88190b6a47fb91c68a3e7 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8506a90c8190bf311f280a061d1a completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf1880bec88190a5b1ca453c783444 completed March 21, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf19c8273081908a5138e9af921ec7 completed March 21, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf1a3049648190b5040e587671610a completed March 21, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.