Triple

T8242268
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cockrell School of Engineering E192564 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Ernest Cockrell Jr.
Ernest Cockrell Jr. was a prominent Texas businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led to the University of Texas at Austin’s engineering school bearing his name.
 E721639 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: Ernest Cockrell Jr. | Statement: [Cockrell School of Engineering, namedAfter, Ernest Cockrell Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ernest Cockrell Jr.
Context triple: [Cockrell School of Engineering, namedAfter, Ernest Cockrell Jr.]
  • A. Robert L. Rice
    Robert L. Rice was a prominent Utah businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to the University of Utah led to the football stadium bearing his name.
  • B. Klyde Warren
    Klyde Warren is the namesake of Dallas’s Klyde Warren Park, a prominent urban green space built over a freeway in the city’s downtown area.
  • C. Claude Preston Williams
    Claude Preston "Lefty" Williams was an American Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his role in the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
  • D. Ralph Brown
    Ralph Brown is a British actor best known for his memorable character roles in films such as "Withnail & I," "Alien 3," and "Wayne's World 2."
  • E. Ned H. Houston
    Ned H. Houston was a prominent figure associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, honored for his contributions by having the Houston Field House ice arena named after him.
  • 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: Ernest Cockrell Jr.
Triple: [Cockrell School of Engineering, namedAfter, Ernest Cockrell Jr.]
Generated description
Ernest Cockrell Jr. was a prominent Texas businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led to the University of Texas at Austin’s engineering school bearing his name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ernest Cockrell Jr.
Target entity description: Ernest Cockrell Jr. was a prominent Texas businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led to the University of Texas at Austin’s engineering school bearing his name.
  • A. Robert L. Rice
    Robert L. Rice was a prominent Utah businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to the University of Utah led to the football stadium bearing his name.
  • B. Klyde Warren
    Klyde Warren is the namesake of Dallas’s Klyde Warren Park, a prominent urban green space built over a freeway in the city’s downtown area.
  • C. Claude Preston Williams
    Claude Preston "Lefty" Williams was an American Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his role in the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
  • D. Ralph Brown
    Ralph Brown is a British actor best known for his memorable character roles in films such as "Withnail & I," "Alien 3," and "Wayne's World 2."
  • E. Ned H. Houston
    Ned H. Houston was a prominent figure associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, honored for his contributions by having the Houston Field House ice arena named after him.
  • 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_69ca82dc8f148190a2c75a98501a7b91 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb783f67708190a4e1c4078c3a6fb0 completed March 31, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd351871ac81909f8e4a72a6b99ac3 completed April 1, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd37a5d3bc8190801b1b0f09eee462 completed April 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4edfda788190a29f5d9a7a61f6ed completed April 1, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:47 p.m.