Triple

T7880984
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ulysses S. Grant administration E182977 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Benjamin H. Bristow
Benjamin H. Bristow was an American lawyer, Union Army officer, and the first U.S. Solicitor General who later served as Secretary of the Treasury, gaining prominence for his role in exposing the Whiskey Ring scandal.
E710881 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: Benjamin H. Bristow | Statement: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, officeHolder, Benjamin H. Bristow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin H. Bristow
Context triple: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, officeHolder, Benjamin H. Bristow]
  • A. Edwin Alderson
    Edwin Alderson was a British Army officer best known for leading Canadian forces during the early years of the First World War, including at the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • B. Levi P. Morton
    Levi P. Morton was an American politician, banker, and diplomat who served as the 22nd vice president of the United States and later as governor of New York.
  • C. George S. Boutwell
    George S. Boutwell was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and later as a U.S. Senator, playing a key role in Reconstruction-era financial and civil rights policies.
  • D. William M. Evarts
    William M. Evarts was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of State who played a key role in major legal and political developments of his era.
  • E. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • 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: Benjamin H. Bristow
Triple: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, officeHolder, Benjamin H. Bristow]
Generated description
Benjamin H. Bristow was an American lawyer, Union Army officer, and the first U.S. Solicitor General who later served as Secretary of the Treasury, gaining prominence for his role in exposing the Whiskey Ring scandal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin H. Bristow
Target entity description: Benjamin H. Bristow was an American lawyer, Union Army officer, and the first U.S. Solicitor General who later served as Secretary of the Treasury, gaining prominence for his role in exposing the Whiskey Ring scandal.
  • A. Edwin Alderson
    Edwin Alderson was a British Army officer best known for leading Canadian forces during the early years of the First World War, including at the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • B. Levi P. Morton
    Levi P. Morton was an American politician, banker, and diplomat who served as the 22nd vice president of the United States and later as governor of New York.
  • C. George S. Boutwell
    George S. Boutwell was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and later as a U.S. Senator, playing a key role in Reconstruction-era financial and civil rights policies.
  • D. William M. Evarts
    William M. Evarts was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of State who played a key role in major legal and political developments of his era.
  • E. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • 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_69ca828af6e48190a06ee7010d8f0e64 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb39bffbc481908e868ab98a38e10a completed March 31, 2026, 3:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc63a38e8081908c72d0b52efa1792 completed April 1, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc64bd6a088190b77e2709c76579e4 completed April 1, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc66b0e1548190840e4335ff2b130f completed April 1, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:58 p.m.