Triple

T8637848
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John McComb Jr. E204566 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object John McComb Sr.
John McComb Sr. was an 18th-century Scottish-born American architect and builder known for his influential work in early New York City.
 E204566 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 McComb Sr. | Statement: [John McComb Jr., father, John McComb Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John McComb Sr.
Context triple: [John McComb Jr., father, John McComb Sr.]
  • A. John McComb Jr.
    John McComb Jr. was a prominent early American architect best known for designing significant Federal-style public buildings in New York City.
  • B. Luther Hicks
    Luther Hicks is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinct namesake of the surname Hicks.
  • C. R. Dale Butts
    R. Dale Butts was an American film composer and arranger known for scoring numerous mid-20th-century Westerns and adventure films.
  • D. Hal Slocumb
    Hal Slocumb is the sympathetic Arkansas detective in the film "Thelma & Louise" who persistently tries to help and protect the two runaway women.
  • E. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • 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 McComb Sr.
Triple: [John McComb Jr., father, John McComb Sr.]
Generated description
John McComb Sr. was an 18th-century Scottish-born American architect and builder known for his influential work in early New York City.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John McComb Sr.
Target entity description: John McComb Sr. was an 18th-century Scottish-born American architect and builder known for his influential work in early New York City.
  • A. John McComb Jr. chosen
    John McComb Jr. was a prominent early American architect best known for designing significant Federal-style public buildings in New York City.
  • B. Luther Hicks
    Luther Hicks is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinct namesake of the surname Hicks.
  • C. R. Dale Butts
    R. Dale Butts was an American film composer and arranger known for scoring numerous mid-20th-century Westerns and adventure films.
  • D. Hal Slocumb
    Hal Slocumb is the sympathetic Arkansas detective in the film "Thelma & Louise" who persistently tries to help and protect the two runaway women.
  • E. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca834b903c8190add96cc651e1a477 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc4763b6dc81908de979e6d8158bd9 completed March 31, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cebc2c2b84819087a9f23b47c607e8 completed April 2, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cebd4633f08190971d5d67e5a7496a completed April 2, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cebe12fa94819099e37ed9e5cd83b7 completed April 2, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:28 p.m.