Triple

T5915110

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Chief of the Bureau of Navigation	`E131558`	entity
Predicate	officeHeldBy	`P537`	FINISHED
Object	Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins was a 19th-century United States Navy officer who served with distinction in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War and later held senior leadership and administrative roles in the Navy.	`E589946`	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: Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins | Statement: [Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, officeHeldBy, Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins
Context triple: [Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, officeHeldBy, Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins]

A. Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton
Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton was a senior United States Navy officer who served in key leadership and administrative roles during the early 20th century.
B. Rear Admiral James H. Glennon
Rear Admiral James H. Glennon was a senior United States Navy officer who rose to high-level leadership roles in naval administration and personnel management in the early 20th century.
C. Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen
Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen was a senior United States Navy officer in World War II, noted for his leadership of cruiser and task force operations in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
D. Rear Admiral John M. Bowyer
Rear Admiral John M. Bowyer was a senior United States Navy officer who rose to flag rank and held prominent leadership and administrative roles in naval personnel management.
E. Rear Admiral William F. Fullam
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam was a senior United States Navy officer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his leadership roles in naval administration and education.
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: Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins
Triple: [Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, officeHeldBy, Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins]

Generated description

Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins was a 19th-century United States Navy officer who served with distinction in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War and later held senior leadership and administrative roles in the Navy.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins
Target entity description: Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins was a 19th-century United States Navy officer who served with distinction in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War and later held senior leadership and administrative roles in the Navy.

A. Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton
Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton was a senior United States Navy officer who served in key leadership and administrative roles during the early 20th century.
B. Rear Admiral James H. Glennon
Rear Admiral James H. Glennon was a senior United States Navy officer who rose to high-level leadership roles in naval administration and personnel management in the early 20th century.
C. Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen
Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen was a senior United States Navy officer in World War II, noted for his leadership of cruiser and task force operations in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
D. Rear Admiral John M. Bowyer
Rear Admiral John M. Bowyer was a senior United States Navy officer who rose to flag rank and held prominent leadership and administrative roles in naval personnel management.
E. Rear Admiral William F. Fullam
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam was a senior United States Navy officer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his leadership roles in naval administration and education.
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_69c008593a44819081a07ae0efe6c574`	completed	March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69c037bb538c8190acc514c2d49359f4`	completed	March 22, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69c63845f4d481909d2b2a73bf4c0233`	completed	March 27, 2026, 7:56 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69c639da52f88190adfbd506597e2eff`	completed	March 27, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69c63a48ef508190840664712cb62bd2`	completed	March 27, 2026, 8:05 a.m.

Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:59 p.m.