Triple

T6994997
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David A. Evans E162185 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Robert E. Ireland
Robert E. Ireland was an American organic chemist known for his influential work in synthetic methodology and for authoring the classic textbook "Organic Synthesis."
E795730 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: Robert E. Ireland | Statement: [David A. Evans, doctoralAdvisor, Robert E. Ireland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert E. Ireland
Context triple: [David A. Evans, doctoralAdvisor, Robert E. Ireland]
  • A. James T. O'Donohoe
    James T. O'Donohoe was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
  • B. William J. Moloney
    William J. Moloney is known primarily as the husband of American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
  • 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. William A. McGonagle
    William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
  • E. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • 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: Robert E. Ireland
Triple: [David A. Evans, doctoralAdvisor, Robert E. Ireland]
Generated description
Robert E. Ireland was an American organic chemist known for his influential work in synthetic methodology and for authoring the classic textbook "Organic Synthesis."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert E. Ireland
Target entity description: Robert E. Ireland was an American organic chemist known for his influential work in synthetic methodology and for authoring the classic textbook "Organic Synthesis."
  • A. James T. O'Donohoe
    James T. O'Donohoe was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
  • B. William J. Moloney
    William J. Moloney is known primarily as the husband of American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
  • 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. William A. McGonagle
    William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
  • E. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • 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_69c68857ffc08190857dc62cd5253777 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6dbec259c8190bb4cfbc1ff6fc786 completed March 27, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d100a1ad688190b1a2fc91ce3dbdc3 completed April 4, 2026, 12:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d10156670c8190b61ef6231c2e78d2 completed April 4, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d10235f46c8190ba8eeb9382649f62 completed April 4, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:32 p.m.