Triple

T5456691
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Governor of Maine E122494 entity
Predicate firstOfficeHolder P4891 FINISHED
Object William King
William King was an American politician and merchant who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Maine after it separated from Massachusetts in 1820.
 E521238 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 King | Statement: [Governor of Maine, firstOfficeHolder, William King]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William King
Context triple: [Governor of Maine, firstOfficeHolder, William King]
  • A. William King
    William King is an American musician best known as a founding trumpeter and horn player of the funk and soul band The Commodores.
  • B. William
    William is a common masculine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • C. William Arthur
    William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
  • D. William Howard
    William Howard is a notable individual who shares the Howard surname, which is historically associated with prominent figures in politics, nobility, and public life.
  • E. William Rufus King
    William Rufus King was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Alabama and briefly as the 13th vice president of the United States under President Franklin Pierce.
  • 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 King
Triple: [Governor of Maine, firstOfficeHolder, William King]
Generated description
William King was an American politician and merchant who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Maine after it separated from Massachusetts in 1820.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William King
Target entity description: William King was an American politician and merchant who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Maine after it separated from Massachusetts in 1820.
  • A. William King
    William King is an American musician best known as a founding trumpeter and horn player of the funk and soul band The Commodores.
  • B. William
    William is a common masculine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • C. William Arthur
    William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
  • D. William Howard
    William Howard is a notable individual who shares the Howard surname, which is historically associated with prominent figures in politics, nobility, and public life.
  • E. William Rufus King
    William Rufus King was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Alabama and briefly as the 13th vice president of the United States under President Franklin Pierce.
  • 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_69bd46424248819085282ddf50a565f3 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd91f05c48819095bb4e371209adee completed March 20, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf41465c3c8190a58350f39d626e54 completed March 22, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf41efb7748190acefa796eb4e4bed completed March 22, 2026, 1:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf42654a108190b271f78616eea25a completed March 22, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:08 p.m.