Triple

T705752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donald Rumsfeld E14094 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object William Cohen
William Cohen is an American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton and previously as a U.S. Senator from Maine.
E90832 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 Cohen | Statement: [Donald Rumsfeld, precededBy, William Cohen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cohen
Context triple: [Donald Rumsfeld, precededBy, William Cohen]
  • A. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • B. John Warner
    John Warner was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy known for his influential role in national defense and bipartisan politics.
  • C. Andrew Card
    Andrew Card is an American politician and government official best known for serving as White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush.
  • D. William P. Rogers
    William P. Rogers was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of State, and later chaired the presidential commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. Lowell Weicker
    Lowell Weicker was an American Republican politician from Connecticut who served as a U.S. Senator and gained national prominence for his independent stance 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 Cohen
Triple: [Donald Rumsfeld, precededBy, William Cohen]
Generated description
William Cohen is an American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton and previously as a U.S. Senator from Maine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cohen
Target entity description: William Cohen is an American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton and previously as a U.S. Senator from Maine.
  • A. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • B. John Warner
    John Warner was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy known for his influential role in national defense and bipartisan politics.
  • C. Andrew Card
    Andrew Card is an American politician and government official best known for serving as White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush.
  • D. William P. Rogers
    William P. Rogers was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of State, and later chaired the presidential commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. Lowell Weicker
    Lowell Weicker was an American Republican politician from Connecticut who served as a U.S. Senator and gained national prominence for his independent stance 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_69a493494ec48190ae6751683625a9ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a54607f08190b3ee4805f2ea4b2f completed March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a6666acf1081908325ae2ba74b6bae completed March 3, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a6674809a48190b30a03a6366bdebd completed March 3, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a667cf4f9881908d63b5e38088c0f9 completed March 3, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.