Triple
T5346373
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Occidental College |
E124064
|
entity |
| Predicate | president |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Harry J. Elam Jr.
Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
|
E524936
|
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: Harry J. Elam Jr. | Statement: [Occidental College, president, Harry J. Elam Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry J. Elam Jr. Context triple: [Occidental College, president, Harry J. Elam Jr.]
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A.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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B.
William G. McDowell Jr.
William G. McDowell Jr. was an Episcopal bishop who served as a past diocesan leader in Alabama.
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C.
James G. Batterson
James G. Batterson was a 19th-century American businessman and insurance pioneer best known for founding what became the Travelers Companies.
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D.
Arland D. Williams Jr.
Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
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E.
Charles B. Wheeler Jr.
Charles B. Wheeler Jr. was a prominent American politician and attorney who served as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and later as a Missouri state senator.
- 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: Harry J. Elam Jr. Triple: [Occidental College, president, Harry J. Elam Jr.]
Generated description
Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry J. Elam Jr. Target entity description: Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
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A.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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B.
William G. McDowell Jr.
William G. McDowell Jr. was an Episcopal bishop who served as a past diocesan leader in Alabama.
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C.
James G. Batterson
James G. Batterson was a 19th-century American businessman and insurance pioneer best known for founding what became the Travelers Companies.
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D.
Arland D. Williams Jr.
Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
-
E.
Charles B. Wheeler Jr.
Charles B. Wheeler Jr. was a prominent American politician and attorney who served as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and later as a Missouri state senator.
- 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_69bd464be27081908807b40b75c1bbae |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd85ede7c481908347d557aa4d19ad |
completed | March 20, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf8335f5a48190973622011df4c108 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:50 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bf83c14dac8190878c6929618a7905 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:53 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bf8437ed0c8190a286489b0a34586a |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:55 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:01 p.m.