Triple

T92633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ted Wheeler E1861 entity
Predicate replaced P101 FINISHED
Object Ben Westlund (as Oregon State Treasurer)
Ben Westlund was an American politician who served as Oregon State Treasurer, overseeing the state’s financial management and investments until his death in 2010.
E7910 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: Ben Westlund (as Oregon State Treasurer) | Statement: [Ted Wheeler, replaced, Ben Westlund (as Oregon State Treasurer)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Westlund (as Oregon State Treasurer)
Context triple: [Ted Wheeler, replaced, Ben Westlund (as Oregon State Treasurer)]
  • A. Oregon State Treasurer
    The Oregon State Treasurer is the elected official responsible for managing the state's finances, investments, and public debt.
  • B. Portland City Auditor
    The Portland City Auditor is an independently elected official responsible for overseeing government accountability, transparency, and performance auditing within the City of Portland.
  • C. Government of Oregon
    The Government of Oregon is the state’s governing authority, encompassing executive, legislative, and judicial branches that administer public policy and services across Oregon.
  • D. John W. Nordstrom
    John W. Nordstrom was a Swedish-American businessman and co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain in the United States.
  • E. William T. Golden
    William T. Golden was an American investment banker and influential science policy advisor who played a key role in shaping post–World War II U.S. science and technology policy.
  • 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: Ben Westlund (as Oregon State Treasurer)
Triple: [Ted Wheeler, replaced, Ben Westlund (as Oregon State Treasurer)]
Generated description
Ben Westlund was an American politician who served as Oregon State Treasurer, overseeing the state’s financial management and investments until his death in 2010.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Westlund (as Oregon State Treasurer)
Target entity description: Ben Westlund was an American politician who served as Oregon State Treasurer, overseeing the state’s financial management and investments until his death in 2010.
  • A. Oregon State Treasurer chosen
    The Oregon State Treasurer is the elected official responsible for managing the state's finances, investments, and public debt.
  • B. Portland City Auditor
    The Portland City Auditor is an independently elected official responsible for overseeing government accountability, transparency, and performance auditing within the City of Portland.
  • C. Government of Oregon
    The Government of Oregon is the state’s governing authority, encompassing executive, legislative, and judicial branches that administer public policy and services across Oregon.
  • D. John W. Nordstrom
    John W. Nordstrom was a Swedish-American businessman and co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain in the United States.
  • E. William T. Golden
    William T. Golden was an American investment banker and influential science policy advisor who played a key role in shaping post–World War II U.S. science and technology policy.
  • 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_69a24d1a97dc819094e6c021fe9b05a7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24faa6d608190920c8fc144e85e21 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a266ebb994819085fb84dd1d2d25ad completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a267b740388190a321023aa52a539a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2685dc64c8190bd611985d1bc27a3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:07 a.m.