Triple

T7081362
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Ashcroft E164962 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush.
E642157 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: John | Statement: [John Ashcroft, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Ashcroft, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Paul Stevens, a long-serving associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  • B. John
    John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for his executive role at General Motors and for financing and promoting the construction of the Empire State Building.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John A. Roebling II, an American civil engineer and philanthropist from the prominent Roebling family associated with major bridge construction.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Borlase Warren, a prominent British naval officer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Francis Dodge, an American automobile pioneer and co-founder of the Dodge Brothers Company.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John Ashcroft, givenName, John]
Generated description
John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush.
  • A. John
    John Negroponte is an American diplomat who served as the first Director of National Intelligence and held several high-profile ambassadorial posts, including to the United Nations and Iraq.
  • B. John
    John is the first name of American politician Mick Mulvaney, who served as acting White House Chief of Staff under President Donald Trump.
  • C. John
    John is the first name of J. Michael Luttig, a prominent American conservative jurist and former federal appellate judge.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of American politician and diplomat John Kerry, a former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Bolton, an American diplomat and former U.S. National Security Advisor known for his hawkish foreign policy views.
  • 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_69c6887cbc6c8190bdfac42d940f4d8a completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e4f1f5748190b214856bcfc70d81 completed March 27, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c79c8a1d788190b9ad25d6e6c460f7 completed March 28, 2026, 9:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c79d7f00ac8190aa288fe93a3e577a completed March 28, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c79e30940c8190a1bcebc840a4990f completed March 28, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:40 p.m.