Triple

T6883417
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John W. Vessey Jr. E158854 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object William J. Crowe
William J. Crowe was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the late Cold War.
E628334 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 J. Crowe | Statement: [John W. Vessey Jr., successor, William J. Crowe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. Crowe
Context triple: [John W. Vessey Jr., successor, William J. Crowe]
  • A. Andrew P. Armacost
    Andrew P. Armacost is an American academic leader and former U.S. Air Force Academy dean who serves as president of the University of North Dakota.
  • B. Richard M. Linnehan
    Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • C. Neil H. McElroy
    Neil H. McElroy was a U.S. businessman and politician who served as Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, playing a key role in shaping early Cold War defense policy.
  • D. John F. Schreyer
    John F. Schreyer is an editor known for his work on the publication "Suddenly."
  • E. Eliot Richardson
    Eliot Richardson was an American lawyer, diplomat, and public official best known for serving in multiple U.S. Cabinet positions and for his principled resignation as Attorney General during the Watergate scandal.
  • 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 J. Crowe
Triple: [John W. Vessey Jr., successor, William J. Crowe]
Generated description
William J. Crowe was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the late Cold War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. Crowe
Target entity description: William J. Crowe was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the late Cold War.
  • A. Andrew P. Armacost
    Andrew P. Armacost is an American academic leader and former U.S. Air Force Academy dean who serves as president of the University of North Dakota.
  • B. Richard M. Linnehan
    Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • C. Neil H. McElroy
    Neil H. McElroy was a U.S. businessman and politician who served as Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, playing a key role in shaping early Cold War defense policy.
  • D. John F. Schreyer
    John F. Schreyer is an editor known for his work on the publication "Suddenly."
  • E. Eliot Richardson
    Eliot Richardson was an American lawyer, diplomat, and public official best known for serving in multiple U.S. Cabinet positions and for his principled resignation as Attorney General during the Watergate scandal.
  • 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_69c688342f6c8190ad7eea6ba262db99 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d8ea59108190a85f9112b6a4e59a completed March 27, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7511d44ec819093b3779dd1eda5f1 completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c751ebf4f48190bb206dd9c1d8bc7b completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c75264e65081908859551feaf1006c completed March 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:23 p.m.