Triple

T7534694
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Dern E178116 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Patrick J. Hurley (as United States Secretary of War)
Patrick J. Hurley was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of War under President Herbert Hoover in the early 1930s.
E671360 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: Patrick J. Hurley (as United States Secretary of War) | Statement: [George Dern, precededBy, Patrick J. Hurley (as United States Secretary of War)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick J. Hurley (as United States Secretary of War)
Context triple: [George Dern, precededBy, Patrick J. Hurley (as United States Secretary of War)]
  • A. Newton D. Baker
    Newton D. Baker was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War during World War I, overseeing the nation’s military mobilization under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • B. Warren Pershing
    Warren Pershing is the son of Francis Warren Pershing, a member of the prominent Pershing family connected to U.S. military and political history.
  • C. Joseph P. Bradley
    Joseph P. Bradley was a 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court justice known for his influential opinions during the Reconstruction era, including decisions that significantly limited federal civil rights protections.
  • D. General Edward P. Chapin
    General Edward P. Chapin was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in battle.
  • E. Oliver H. Payne
    Oliver H. Payne was an American industrialist and financier who became a prominent early partner and major shareholder in John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil empire.
  • 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: Patrick J. Hurley (as United States Secretary of War)
Triple: [George Dern, precededBy, Patrick J. Hurley (as United States Secretary of War)]
Generated description
Patrick J. Hurley was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of War under President Herbert Hoover in the early 1930s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick J. Hurley (as United States Secretary of War)
Target entity description: Patrick J. Hurley was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of War under President Herbert Hoover in the early 1930s.
  • A. Newton D. Baker
    Newton D. Baker was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War during World War I, overseeing the nation’s military mobilization under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • B. Warren Pershing
    Warren Pershing is the son of Francis Warren Pershing, a member of the prominent Pershing family connected to U.S. military and political history.
  • C. Joseph P. Bradley
    Joseph P. Bradley was a 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court justice known for his influential opinions during the Reconstruction era, including decisions that significantly limited federal civil rights protections.
  • D. General Edward P. Chapin
    General Edward P. Chapin was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in battle.
  • E. Oliver H. Payne
    Oliver H. Payne was an American industrialist and financier who became a prominent early partner and major shareholder in John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil empire.
  • 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_69c69f2acdbc8190b5a8320168c1d0ba completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f84a9d28819084ebfc44fcb2c29c completed March 27, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c84f0765b48190b8df68f22c8901f4 completed March 28, 2026, 9:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8514ed0108190bb9686422818b2d1 completed March 28, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c851f462dc8190a706c9580449a396 completed March 28, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:47 p.m.