Triple

T655651
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philippine–American War E11641 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Elwell Stephen Otis
Elwell Stephen Otis was a U.S. Army general best known for his controversial leadership as military governor and commanding general in the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century.
 E233217 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: Elwell Stephen Otis | Statement: [Philippine–American War, commander, Elwell Stephen Otis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elwell Stephen Otis
Context triple: [Philippine–American War, commander, Elwell Stephen Otis]
  • A. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • B. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • C. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • D. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • E. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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: Elwell Stephen Otis
Triple: [Philippine–American War, commander, Elwell Stephen Otis]
Generated description
Elwell Stephen Otis was a U.S. Army general best known for his controversial leadership as military governor and commanding general in the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elwell Stephen Otis
Target entity description: Elwell Stephen Otis was a U.S. Army general best known for his controversial leadership as military governor and commanding general in the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century.
  • A. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • B. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • C. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • D. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • E. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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_69a4932862a0819098be659c814e4981 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f4d57688190a9515ac494a97b22 completed March 1, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae3032c1588190bae02f0e2152c6f1 completed March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae30f6b7c4819080cb7cb7adc1f6d3 completed March 9, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae31849d7c8190a4e3c90334bf21a5 completed March 9, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.