Triple
T5518085
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mary Eunice Harlan |
E144734
|
entity |
| Predicate | father |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
James Harlan
James Harlan was a 19th-century American politician from Iowa who served as a U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Interior under President Andrew Johnson.
|
E534589
|
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: James Harlan | Statement: [Mary Eunice Harlan, father, James Harlan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Harlan Context triple: [Mary Eunice Harlan, father, James Harlan]
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A.
James S. Harlan
James S. Harlan was an American lawyer and public official, known as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and for serving on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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B.
William Wirt
William Wirt was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General and became the Anti-Masonic Party’s presidential candidate in the 1832 election.
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C.
Edward Bates
Edward Bates was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
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D.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
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E.
Hal G. Evarts
Hal G. Evarts was an American writer known for his Western-themed stories and screenplays in early Hollywood cinema.
- 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: James Harlan Triple: [Mary Eunice Harlan, father, James Harlan]
Generated description
James Harlan was a 19th-century American politician from Iowa who served as a U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Interior under President Andrew Johnson.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Harlan Target entity description: James Harlan was a 19th-century American politician from Iowa who served as a U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Interior under President Andrew Johnson.
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A.
James S. Harlan
James S. Harlan was an American lawyer and public official, known as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and for serving on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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B.
William Wirt
William Wirt was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General and became the Anti-Masonic Party’s presidential candidate in the 1832 election.
-
C.
Edward Bates
Edward Bates was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
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D.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
-
E.
Hal G. Evarts
Hal G. Evarts was an American writer known for his Western-themed stories and screenplays in early Hollywood cinema.
- 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_69c008f77ff88190b0cd50ca207295d1 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c01f6cefe48190bfda90d6afab8468 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 4:57 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c04cc5f37881909f9aa8090f6c9685 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 8:10 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c04e827bdc819086e01e7043400452 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 8:18 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c04f088a3c81909610f1a564960e0f |
completed | March 22, 2026, 8:20 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.