Triple

T7394824
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Plouffe E170594 entity
Predicate workedFor P1910 FINISHED
Object Tom Harkin
Tom Harkin is an American Democratic politician and longtime U.S. senator from Iowa known for his leadership on disability rights and authorship of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
 E661149 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: Tom Harkin | Statement: [David Plouffe, workedFor, Tom Harkin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Harkin
Context triple: [David Plouffe, workedFor, Tom Harkin]
  • A. Ben Nelson
    Ben Nelson is an American politician who served as the Democratic U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 2001 to 2013 and previously as the state's governor.
  • B. Carl Levin
    Carl Levin was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Michigan known for his leadership on national security and defense oversight, including as chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  • C. David Pickering
    David Pickering is a British reference book editor and author known for his works on dictionaries, encyclopedias, and guides to literature, theatre, and the arts.
  • D. Gene Markey
    Gene Markey was an American Hollywood screenwriter, producer, and author known for his marriages to several famous actresses and his later career as a decorated U.S. Navy officer.
  • E. Tom Daschle
    Tom Daschle is an American politician who served as a longtime U.S. Senator from South Dakota and as Senate Majority Leader for the Democratic Party.
  • 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: Tom Harkin
Triple: [David Plouffe, workedFor, Tom Harkin]
Generated description
Tom Harkin is an American Democratic politician and longtime U.S. senator from Iowa known for his leadership on disability rights and authorship of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Harkin
Target entity description: Tom Harkin is an American Democratic politician and longtime U.S. senator from Iowa known for his leadership on disability rights and authorship of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
  • A. Ben Nelson
    Ben Nelson is an American politician who served as the Democratic U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 2001 to 2013 and previously as the state's governor.
  • B. Carl Levin
    Carl Levin was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Michigan known for his leadership on national security and defense oversight, including as chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  • C. David Pickering
    David Pickering is a British reference book editor and author known for his works on dictionaries, encyclopedias, and guides to literature, theatre, and the arts.
  • D. Gene Markey
    Gene Markey was an American Hollywood screenwriter, producer, and author known for his marriages to several famous actresses and his later career as a decorated U.S. Navy officer.
  • E. Tom Daschle
    Tom Daschle is an American politician who served as a longtime U.S. Senator from South Dakota and as Senate Majority Leader for the Democratic Party.
  • 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_69c68a5f04188190ac266569c9280347 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2279de4819081b8876d02f55388 completed March 27, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c810fcb1408190a6ed22213bd7830b completed March 28, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8119611148190ae72e52242798dfe completed March 28, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8121126e08190a95ab570569158cf completed March 28, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:09 p.m.