Triple

T7800504
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John S. McCain Sr. E180417 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John S. McCain Sr., a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and patriarch of the McCain military and political family.
 E694188 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 S. McCain Sr., givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John S. McCain Sr., givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of the American composer John Luther Adams, known for his works inspired by nature and environmental themes.
  • B. John
    John is the first name of John Dashwood, a character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility."
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of American character actor and comedian Rags Ragland.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of actor John Cho, a Korean American performer known for roles in the "Harold & Kumar" films and the "Star Trek" reboot series.
  • E. John
    John is the first name of the fictional character John Connor, the prophesied leader of the human resistance in the Terminator franchise.
  • 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 S. McCain Sr., givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John S. McCain Sr., a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and patriarch of the McCain military and political family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John S. McCain Sr., a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and patriarch of the McCain military and political family.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John McCain III, the American politician and longtime U.S. senator from Arizona who was the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John F. Lehman, a former U.S. Secretary of the Navy and influential defense policy figure.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John W. Vessey Jr., a U.S. Army general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John C. Stennis, a long-serving U.S. Senator from Mississippi known for his influence on defense policy.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John F. Kelly, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general and former White House Chief of Staff.
  • 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_69ca827e50cc8190a92a733577184938 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cae98765c48190b325eee67bd663fc completed March 30, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb13cdb4288190ae3cfe1ee4e3e496 completed March 31, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb1638c9888190be533d55fd0b494f completed March 31, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb1a3e6da08190bf4f82b59db41333 completed March 31, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:33 p.m.