Triple
T8309859
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Eliot Richardson |
E194562
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededByAsSecretaryOfHEW |
P82669
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Robert H. Finch
Robert H. Finch was an American Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Richard Nixon and previously as Lieutenant Governor of California.
|
E727858
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (5 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: Robert H. Finch | Statement: [Eliot Richardson, precededByAsSecretaryOfHEW, Robert H. Finch]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert H. Finch Context triple: [Eliot Richardson, precededByAsSecretaryOfHEW, Robert H. Finch]
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A.
John C. Young
John C. Young was the American judge who presided over the High Command Trial, one of the subsequent Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
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B.
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Richard F. Gordon Jr. was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, NASA astronaut, and command module pilot of Apollo 12 who played a key role in the early Apollo lunar program.
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C.
Vance D. Brand
Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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D.
Dr. Jerome Lovell
Dr. Jerome Lovell is a fictional physician and central character in the film "Nell," who discovers and attempts to help a reclusive young woman raised in isolation.
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E.
Joe Engle
Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
- 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: Robert H. Finch Triple: [Eliot Richardson, precededByAsSecretaryOfHEW, Robert H. Finch]
Generated description
Robert H. Finch was an American Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Richard Nixon and previously as Lieutenant Governor of California.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert H. Finch Target entity description: Robert H. Finch was an American Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Richard Nixon and previously as Lieutenant Governor of California.
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A.
John C. Young
John C. Young was the American judge who presided over the High Command Trial, one of the subsequent Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
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B.
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Richard F. Gordon Jr. was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, NASA astronaut, and command module pilot of Apollo 12 who played a key role in the early Apollo lunar program.
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C.
Vance D. Brand
Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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D.
Dr. Jerome Lovell
Dr. Jerome Lovell is a fictional physician and central character in the film "Nell," who discovers and attempts to help a reclusive young woman raised in isolation.
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E.
Joe Engle
Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: precededByAsSecretaryOfHEW Context triple: [Eliot Richardson, precededByAsSecretaryOfHEW, Robert H. Finch]
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A.
precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfStateBy
Indicates that one person assumed the role of Secretary of State after another specific person, who held the office immediately before them.
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B.
precededByAsFirstSecretary
Indicates that one entity previously served as the first secretary before another entity in a given organizational or institutional role.
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C.
precededByAsHomeSecretary
Indicates that one individual previously held the position of Home Secretary before another individual.
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D.
precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfDefenseBy
Indicates that one person assumed the role of Secretary of Defense after another specific person, who directly held the office immediately before them.
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E.
precededByAsNationalSecurityAdvisor
Indicates that one individual previously held the position of National Security Advisor immediately before another individual.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (7 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_69ca82e613e88190bf8139669bbd0d53 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb7f2d2c30819095075940479b75a7 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 8 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cdc6e4eb808190b138c52810f35040 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:31 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cdcc8439cc8190b00ce9b0781d0544 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:55 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cdcdd1a0c08190aa15e665a38945e7 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 2 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69cb70bb3a708190bc705222092da614 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 6:59 a.m. |
| PDg | Predicate description generation | batch_69cb76d648988190ab0669cc0592e827 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 7:25 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:54 p.m.