Triple

T7617722
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Lewis Herndon E172402 entity
Predicate hasPartInNameOf P5298 FINISHED
Object USS Herndon (DD-198)
USS Herndon (DD-198) was a Clemson-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served primarily during the interwar period and early World War II.
 E677223 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: USS Herndon (DD-198) | Statement: [William Lewis Herndon, hasPartInNameOf, USS Herndon (DD-198)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: USS Herndon (DD-198)
Context triple: [William Lewis Herndon, hasPartInNameOf, USS Herndon (DD-198)]
  • A. USS Henley (DD-391)
    USS Henley (DD-391) was a Bagley-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served in the Pacific during World War II before being sunk in 1943.
  • B. USS Hammann (DD-412)
    USS Hammann (DD-412) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in the early years of World War II in the Pacific before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
  • C. USS O’Brien (DD-415)
    USS O’Brien (DD-415) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer that served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters before being lost to damage sustained from a Japanese torpedo attack in 1942.
  • D. USS Morris (DD-417)
    USS Morris (DD-417) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat actions.
  • E. USS Hoel (DD-533)
    USS Hoel (DD-533) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy that gained renown for its heroic but doomed attack against a vastly superior Japanese force during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
  • 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: USS Herndon (DD-198)
Triple: [William Lewis Herndon, hasPartInNameOf, USS Herndon (DD-198)]
Generated description
USS Herndon (DD-198) was a Clemson-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served primarily during the interwar period and early World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: USS Herndon (DD-198)
Target entity description: USS Herndon (DD-198) was a Clemson-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served primarily during the interwar period and early World War II.
  • A. USS Henley (DD-391)
    USS Henley (DD-391) was a Bagley-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served in the Pacific during World War II before being sunk in 1943.
  • B. USS Hammann (DD-412)
    USS Hammann (DD-412) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in the early years of World War II in the Pacific before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
  • C. USS O’Brien (DD-415)
    USS O’Brien (DD-415) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer that served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters before being lost to damage sustained from a Japanese torpedo attack in 1942.
  • D. USS Morris (DD-417)
    USS Morris (DD-417) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat actions.
  • E. USS Hoel (DD-533)
    USS Hoel (DD-533) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy that gained renown for its heroic but doomed attack against a vastly superior Japanese force during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
  • 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_69c699506b308190826894dab1d9ea86 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6fa46d95081909c01d1432585ab2a completed March 27, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c868714d7c8190aae66a3dd4e6214b completed March 28, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c86a93e34c81908aaf0edb023ee78c completed March 28, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c86af8330c8190a43c599e82fe465a completed March 28, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:55 p.m.