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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • A. precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfStateBy
    Indicates that one person assumed the role of Secretary of State after another specific person, who held the office immediately before them.
  • B. precededByAsFirstSecretary
    Indicates that one entity previously served as the first secretary before another entity in a given organizational or institutional role.
  • C. precededByAsHomeSecretary
    Indicates that one individual previously held the position of Home Secretary before another individual.
  • 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.
  • 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.