Triple

T8440881
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jimmy McNulty E199347 entity
Predicate antagonisticTo P18963 FINISHED
Object William Rawls
William Rawls is a high-ranking, politically driven Baltimore police commander in *The Wire* known for his ruthless focus on statistics and career advancement over genuine police work.
E737580 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: William Rawls | Statement: [Jimmy McNulty, antagonisticTo, William Rawls]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Rawls
Context triple: [Jimmy McNulty, antagonisticTo, William Rawls]
  • A. James H. Wilson
    James H. Wilson was a Union Army major general and cavalry commander during the American Civil War, noted for leading destructive raids through the Confederacy in its final months.
  • B. Lawrence Douglas Wilder
    Lawrence Douglas Wilder is an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected African American governor in U.S. history, serving as governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994.
  • C. Lawrence Sullivan Ross
    Lawrence Sullivan Ross was a 19th-century Texas governor, Confederate general, and president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University), remembered for his leadership and influence on the state and the university.
  • D. John H. Wilson
    John H. Wilson was a business partner in the Wilson Brothers & Company firm, likely involved in its management and commercial operations.
  • E. Stanley Reed
    Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his generally conservative jurisprudence and frequent defense of governmental authority during the mid-20th century.
  • 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: William Rawls
Triple: [Jimmy McNulty, antagonisticTo, William Rawls]
Generated description
William Rawls is a high-ranking, politically driven Baltimore police commander in *The Wire* known for his ruthless focus on statistics and career advancement over genuine police work.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Rawls
Target entity description: William Rawls is a high-ranking, politically driven Baltimore police commander in *The Wire* known for his ruthless focus on statistics and career advancement over genuine police work.
  • A. James H. Wilson
    James H. Wilson was a Union Army major general and cavalry commander during the American Civil War, noted for leading destructive raids through the Confederacy in its final months.
  • B. Lawrence Douglas Wilder
    Lawrence Douglas Wilder is an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected African American governor in U.S. history, serving as governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994.
  • C. Lawrence Sullivan Ross
    Lawrence Sullivan Ross was a 19th-century Texas governor, Confederate general, and president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University), remembered for his leadership and influence on the state and the university.
  • D. John H. Wilson
    John H. Wilson was a business partner in the Wilson Brothers & Company firm, likely involved in its management and commercial operations.
  • E. Stanley Reed
    Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his generally conservative jurisprudence and frequent defense of governmental authority during the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69ca8314cd6c8190a6b8c2a1096e18f3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe138a94081908e306d22aaa39b24 completed March 31, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce39a951c881909cfa0a35feeb2ee0 completed April 2, 2026, 9:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3bd6c0c4819099f104c6dbfeef2c completed April 2, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce401c4e7081909a5b9fe0c0926114 completed April 2, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:08 p.m.