Triple

T8598867
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Buford E203622 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John Buford, a notable Union cavalry officer in the American Civil War.
E744779 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: John | Statement: [John Buford, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Buford, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Anderson, a British civil servant and politician who played a key role in government during the early 20th century.
  • B. John
    John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for his executive role at General Motors and for financing and promoting the construction of the Empire State Building.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John A. Roebling II, an American civil engineer and philanthropist from the prominent Roebling family associated with major bridge construction.
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of J. Presper Eckert, the American electrical engineer and co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Francis Dodge, an American automobile pioneer and co-founder of the Dodge Brothers Company.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John Buford, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John Buford, a notable Union cavalry officer in the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John Buford, a notable Union cavalry officer in the American Civil War.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John F. Reynolds, a Union Army general who served during the American Civil War.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Bell Hood, a Confederate general known for his aggressive command during the American Civil War.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Alexander Logan, a prominent 19th-century American Civil War general and influential politician.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John C. Pemberton, a Confederate general best known for his role in the American Civil War, particularly the Siege of Vicksburg.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John J. Pershing, the famed American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
  • 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_69ca832b56948190ba751cec255308f1 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc46cc8b2081909c6aa45f8656f2ad completed March 31, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cea88464b88190983e22e70bf38e63 completed April 2, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cea9d0dad0819095134f6f8cafb4c0 completed April 2, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ceaa7025388190a3f17aca46d4858e completed April 2, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:24 p.m.