Triple

T6195428
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Confederate States Navy E138497 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object John Mercer Brooke
John Mercer Brooke was a 19th-century American naval officer and inventor best known for his work in naval ordnance and for designing the ironclad warship CSS Virginia for the Confederate States Navy.
E607535 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: John Mercer Brooke | Statement: [Confederate States Navy, notableCommander, John Mercer Brooke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Mercer Brooke
Context triple: [Confederate States Navy, notableCommander, John Mercer Brooke]
  • A. Peter Bent Brigham
    Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
  • B. John Herndon Mercer
    John Herndon Mercer was a renowned American lyricist, songwriter, and singer who co-founded Capitol Records and wrote numerous popular standards of the Great American Songbook.
  • C. Edward Everett Horton
    Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor and comedian best known for his droll, fussy persona in classic Hollywood films and early television.
  • D. Charles Goodell
    Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
  • E. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • 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: John Mercer Brooke
Triple: [Confederate States Navy, notableCommander, John Mercer Brooke]
Generated description
John Mercer Brooke was a 19th-century American naval officer and inventor best known for his work in naval ordnance and for designing the ironclad warship CSS Virginia for the Confederate States Navy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Mercer Brooke
Target entity description: John Mercer Brooke was a 19th-century American naval officer and inventor best known for his work in naval ordnance and for designing the ironclad warship CSS Virginia for the Confederate States Navy.
  • A. Peter Bent Brigham
    Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
  • B. John Herndon Mercer
    John Herndon Mercer was a renowned American lyricist, songwriter, and singer who co-founded Capitol Records and wrote numerous popular standards of the Great American Songbook.
  • C. Edward Everett Horton
    Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor and comedian best known for his droll, fussy persona in classic Hollywood films and early television.
  • D. Charles Goodell
    Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
  • E. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • 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_69c008ab9b3081908a11b2c744838435 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0624571508190bd273b4a051fbe41 completed March 22, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6e406787881908648872228d6eac9 completed March 27, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6e61218c4819084c170611077f0e6 completed March 27, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6e7cc21548190b302e2e31f9cadd0 completed March 27, 2026, 8:25 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:20 p.m.