Triple

T7486022
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William G. Milliken E176883 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object James J. Blanchard
James J. Blanchard is an American Democratic politician who served as the 45th governor of Michigan and later as U.S. ambassador to Canada.
 E673878 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: James J. Blanchard | Statement: [William G. Milliken, succeededBy, James J. Blanchard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James J. Blanchard
Context triple: [William G. Milliken, succeededBy, James J. Blanchard]
  • A. James M. Carlsmith
    James M. Carlsmith was a social psychologist best known for his influential experimental work on cognitive dissonance conducted with Leon Festinger.
  • B. James A. Abrahamson
    James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
  • C. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • D. John D. Porcari
    John D. Porcari is an American public official and transportation expert who served in senior leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Transportation and in state-level transportation agencies.
  • E. John L. Balderston
    John L. Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting classic horror and fantasy works such as "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" for stage and screen.
  • 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: James J. Blanchard
Triple: [William G. Milliken, succeededBy, James J. Blanchard]
Generated description
James J. Blanchard is an American Democratic politician who served as the 45th governor of Michigan and later as U.S. ambassador to Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James J. Blanchard
Target entity description: James J. Blanchard is an American Democratic politician who served as the 45th governor of Michigan and later as U.S. ambassador to Canada.
  • A. James M. Carlsmith
    James M. Carlsmith was a social psychologist best known for his influential experimental work on cognitive dissonance conducted with Leon Festinger.
  • B. James A. Abrahamson
    James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
  • C. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • D. John D. Porcari
    John D. Porcari is an American public official and transportation expert who served in senior leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Transportation and in state-level transportation agencies.
  • E. John L. Balderston
    John L. Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting classic horror and fantasy works such as "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" for stage and screen.
  • 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_69c69f24ac508190bb98fe927c0bd065 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f556955c8190bf014a065e04c5d8 completed March 27, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c856acc3208190985e10c285f41e02 completed March 28, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c858fc017c8190b30ece88d4d60100 completed March 28, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c859790e8881908a78449f40d528d8 completed March 28, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:42 p.m.