Triple

T5676874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C. E125106 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurials P3803 FINISHED
Object James A. Gary
James A. Gary was an American politician and businessman who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President William McKinley.
 E866677 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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 A. Gary | Statement: [Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C., hasNotableBurials, James A. Gary]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James A. Gary
Context triple: [Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C., hasNotableBurials, James A. Gary]
  • A. James R. Rice
    James R. Rice is a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician renowned for his foundational contributions to fracture mechanics and solid mechanics.
  • B. William C. Gordon
    William C. Gordon was an American lawyer-turned-crime novelist best known for his San Francisco–set detective fiction and his marriage to Chilean author Isabel Allende.
  • C. William A. McGonagle
    William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
  • D. James B. McNamara
    James B. McNamara was an American labor union activist best known for his role in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, a pivotal event in early 20th-century labor history.
  • E. James L. Wilmeth
    James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James A. Gary
Target entity description: James A. Gary was an American politician and businessman who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President William McKinley.
  • A. James R. Rice
    James R. Rice is a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician renowned for his foundational contributions to fracture mechanics and solid mechanics.
  • B. William C. Gordon
    William C. Gordon was an American lawyer-turned-crime novelist best known for his San Francisco–set detective fiction and his marriage to Chilean author Isabel Allende.
  • C. William A. McGonagle
    William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
  • D. James B. McNamara
    James B. McNamara was an American labor union activist best known for his role in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, a pivotal event in early 20th-century labor history.
  • E. James L. Wilmeth
    James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

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 A. Gary
Triple: [Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C., hasNotableBurials, James A. Gary]
Generated description
James A. Gary was an American politician and businessman who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President William McKinley.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69c008295c808190acfe78915e7d656a elicitation completed
NER batch_69c02392f9f481908f7b80873589eff1 ner completed
NED1 batch_69d8dbc697388190b384c7ed9e6a65dc ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_69d901c7684c8190837ed9ef0c2428af ned_description completed
NEDg batch_69d8e8c683608190aa4333ed38e79f53 nedg completed
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:43 p.m.