Triple

T8373097
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cravath, Swaine & Moore E197506 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Richard M. Blatchford
Richard M. Blatchford was an American lawyer and diplomat best known for co-founding the prominent New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
 E734570 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: Richard M. Blatchford | Statement: [Cravath, Swaine & Moore, founder, Richard M. Blatchford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard M. Blatchford
Context triple: [Cravath, Swaine & Moore, founder, Richard M. Blatchford]
  • A. Kenneth Alexander Blatchford
    Kenneth Alexander Blatchford was a prominent Canadian politician and former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, recognized for his contributions to the city’s development.
  • B. Edward Hume
    Edward Hume was an American television writer and producer best known for creating and writing several popular crime and drama series in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • D. Bernard Bresslaw
    Bernard Bresslaw was a British comic actor best known for his towering height and recurring roles in the "Carry On" film series.
  • E. Philip Latham
    Philip Latham was a British actor best known for his character roles in film and television, particularly in period dramas.
  • 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: Richard M. Blatchford
Triple: [Cravath, Swaine & Moore, founder, Richard M. Blatchford]
Generated description
Richard M. Blatchford was an American lawyer and diplomat best known for co-founding the prominent New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard M. Blatchford
Target entity description: Richard M. Blatchford was an American lawyer and diplomat best known for co-founding the prominent New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
  • A. Kenneth Alexander Blatchford
    Kenneth Alexander Blatchford was a prominent Canadian politician and former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, recognized for his contributions to the city’s development.
  • B. Edward Hume
    Edward Hume was an American television writer and producer best known for creating and writing several popular crime and drama series in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • D. Bernard Bresslaw
    Bernard Bresslaw was a British comic actor best known for his towering height and recurring roles in the "Carry On" film series.
  • E. Philip Latham
    Philip Latham was a British actor best known for his character roles in film and television, particularly in period dramas.
  • 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_69ca82f56730819080cec5d991c76f4c completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb80a7cab881909d8cca66a340dceb completed March 31, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce1d0a3ba481909a8c247c4c476104 completed April 2, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce1f3729e4819084600862b53c94a8 completed April 2, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce1fdde53c8190b356950f878b6b70 completed April 2, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:01 p.m.