Triple

T6467369
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National Prohibition Act E142262 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Andrew Volstead
Andrew Volstead was an American politician and U.S. Congressman best known for sponsoring the legislation that enabled national Prohibition in the United States.
E595115 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: Andrew Volstead | Statement: [National Prohibition Act, namedAfter, Andrew Volstead]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Volstead
Context triple: [National Prohibition Act, namedAfter, Andrew Volstead]
  • A. Eugene F. Stoermer
    Eugene F. Stoermer was an American freshwater ecologist best known for helping introduce and popularize the term "Anthropocene" to describe humanity’s profound impact on the Earth’s systems.
  • B. Eugene William Oates
    Eugene William Oates was a 19th-century British naturalist and ornithologist known for his studies of South Asian birdlife and contributions to early avian literature.
  • C. William Heise
    William Heise was an early American cinematographer and camera operator who worked on some of the first motion pictures produced in the late 19th century.
  • D. William B. Franke
    William B. Franke was a United States businessman and public official who served as Secretary of the Navy during the Eisenhower administration.
  • E. John B. Purcell
    John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
  • 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: Andrew Volstead
Triple: [National Prohibition Act, namedAfter, Andrew Volstead]
Generated description
Andrew Volstead was an American politician and U.S. Congressman best known for sponsoring the legislation that enabled national Prohibition in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Volstead
Target entity description: Andrew Volstead was an American politician and U.S. Congressman best known for sponsoring the legislation that enabled national Prohibition in the United States.
  • A. Eugene F. Stoermer
    Eugene F. Stoermer was an American freshwater ecologist best known for helping introduce and popularize the term "Anthropocene" to describe humanity’s profound impact on the Earth’s systems.
  • B. Eugene William Oates
    Eugene William Oates was a 19th-century British naturalist and ornithologist known for his studies of South Asian birdlife and contributions to early avian literature.
  • C. William Heise
    William Heise was an early American cinematographer and camera operator who worked on some of the first motion pictures produced in the late 19th century.
  • D. William B. Franke
    William B. Franke was a United States businessman and public official who served as Secretary of the Navy during the Eisenhower administration.
  • E. John B. Purcell
    John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
  • 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_69c008d3bf4c8190bcf798c5ba9d6fb3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06a12ccf481908f71f888cd744b64 completed March 22, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c64bed24b881909ade4e5451153986 completed March 27, 2026, 9:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c64ca8eb2881909ed9927106b9a356 completed March 27, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c64d44105c81908ddcdfabc51a75e9 completed March 27, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:49 p.m.