Triple

T672571
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Connell School of Nursing E13004 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William F. Connell
William F. Connell was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Boston College to name its nursing school in his honor.
E321577 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: William F. Connell | Statement: [Connell School of Nursing, namedAfter, William F. Connell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William F. Connell
Context triple: [Connell School of Nursing, namedAfter, William F. Connell]
  • A. Arthur E. Molloy
    Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
  • B. George H. Fallon
    George H. Fallon was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland known for his influential role in shaping national transportation policy, including major federal highway legislation.
  • C. William J. Ruane
    William J. Ruane was an American value investor and fund manager best known for founding the Sequoia Fund and for his close professional association with Warren Buffett.
  • D. Eugene A. Fitzgerald
    Eugene A. Fitzgerald is an American materials scientist and engineer known for pioneering work in semiconductor materials and device technologies.
  • E. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • 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: William F. Connell
Triple: [Connell School of Nursing, namedAfter, William F. Connell]
Generated description
William F. Connell was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Boston College to name its nursing school in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William F. Connell
Target entity description: William F. Connell was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Boston College to name its nursing school in his honor.
  • A. Arthur E. Molloy
    Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
  • B. George H. Fallon
    George H. Fallon was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland known for his influential role in shaping national transportation policy, including major federal highway legislation.
  • C. William J. Ruane
    William J. Ruane was an American value investor and fund manager best known for founding the Sequoia Fund and for his close professional association with Warren Buffett.
  • D. Eugene A. Fitzgerald
    Eugene A. Fitzgerald is an American materials scientist and engineer known for pioneering work in semiconductor materials and device technologies.
  • E. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • 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_69a4933d3bf88190972041cd8cf143b9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a023753c8190900f26fa7698775b completed March 1, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1de5dc6e88190beda5545a2e2f84c completed March 11, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1e6eb23a08190845b80e711c56cb7 completed March 11, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1e75daa7c8190af420ff3458923ae completed March 11, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.