Triple

T6371167
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rockefeller Commission E143346 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Edgar F. Shannon Jr.
Edgar F. Shannon Jr. was an American educator and longtime president of the University of Virginia who also served on national commissions, including the Rockefeller Commission.
E603577 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: Edgar F. Shannon Jr. | Statement: [Rockefeller Commission, hasMember, Edgar F. Shannon Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar F. Shannon Jr.
Context triple: [Rockefeller Commission, hasMember, Edgar F. Shannon Jr.]
  • A. Arden L. Bement Jr.
    Arden L. Bement Jr. is an American engineer and public servant best known for leading major U.S. science and engineering agencies, including serving as director of the National Science Foundation.
  • B. William E. Conway Jr.
    William E. Conway Jr. is an American billionaire businessman and investor best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
  • C. Alton G. Keel Jr.
    Alton G. Keel Jr. was an American aerospace engineer and government official who held senior defense and space policy roles, including service on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. Dexter M. Ferry
    Dexter M. Ferry was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the D.M. Ferry & Co. seed company in Detroit.
  • E. Charles B. Wheeler Jr.
    Charles B. Wheeler Jr. was a prominent American politician and attorney who served as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and later as a Missouri state senator.
  • 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: Edgar F. Shannon Jr.
Triple: [Rockefeller Commission, hasMember, Edgar F. Shannon Jr.]
Generated description
Edgar F. Shannon Jr. was an American educator and longtime president of the University of Virginia who also served on national commissions, including the Rockefeller Commission.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar F. Shannon Jr.
Target entity description: Edgar F. Shannon Jr. was an American educator and longtime president of the University of Virginia who also served on national commissions, including the Rockefeller Commission.
  • A. Arden L. Bement Jr.
    Arden L. Bement Jr. is an American engineer and public servant best known for leading major U.S. science and engineering agencies, including serving as director of the National Science Foundation.
  • B. William E. Conway Jr.
    William E. Conway Jr. is an American billionaire businessman and investor best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
  • C. Alton G. Keel Jr.
    Alton G. Keel Jr. was an American aerospace engineer and government official who held senior defense and space policy roles, including service on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. Dexter M. Ferry
    Dexter M. Ferry was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the D.M. Ferry & Co. seed company in Detroit.
  • E. Charles B. Wheeler Jr.
    Charles B. Wheeler Jr. was a prominent American politician and attorney who served as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and later as a Missouri state senator.
  • 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_69c008d8c61081908bcaf61510d881ed completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c068289eac8190a17affed87340c1f completed March 22, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6d50184a081908286d92166fd1c00 completed March 27, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6d6732d9c8190878b54902306b128 completed March 27, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6d82d77388190a3022a2366a5aec7 completed March 27, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:33 p.m.