Triple

T941746
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Theological Seminary E20320 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
E113054 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 Sloane Coffin | Statement: [Union Theological Seminary, hasNotableAlumnus, William Sloane Coffin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sloane Coffin
Context triple: [Union Theological Seminary, hasNotableAlumnus, William Sloane Coffin]
  • A. William Flynt Nichols
    William Flynt Nichols was a U.S. Congressman from Alabama who co-sponsored the landmark Goldwater–Nichols Act that restructured the Department of Defense and modernized American military command.
  • B. Stanley Grenz
    Stanley Grenz was an influential late-20th-century evangelical theologian known for his work in systematic theology, postmodern theology, and especially his development of a relational, community-focused doctrine of the Trinity.
  • C. Reinhold Niebuhr
    Reinhold Niebuhr was a prominent 20th-century American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual best known for his work on Christian realism and the authorship of the Serenity Prayer.
  • D. Robert F. Goheen
    Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
  • E. Phillips Brooks
    Phillips Brooks was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal clergyman and orator, best known as the author of the Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and as a leading preacher at Boston's Trinity Church.
  • 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 Sloane Coffin
Triple: [Union Theological Seminary, hasNotableAlumnus, William Sloane Coffin]
Generated description
William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sloane Coffin
Target entity description: William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
  • A. William Flynt Nichols
    William Flynt Nichols was a U.S. Congressman from Alabama who co-sponsored the landmark Goldwater–Nichols Act that restructured the Department of Defense and modernized American military command.
  • B. Stanley Grenz
    Stanley Grenz was an influential late-20th-century evangelical theologian known for his work in systematic theology, postmodern theology, and especially his development of a relational, community-focused doctrine of the Trinity.
  • C. Reinhold Niebuhr
    Reinhold Niebuhr was a prominent 20th-century American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual best known for his work on Christian realism and the authorship of the Serenity Prayer.
  • D. Robert F. Goheen
    Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
  • E. Phillips Brooks
    Phillips Brooks was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal clergyman and orator, best known as the author of the Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and as a leading preacher at Boston's Trinity Church.
  • 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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b3a1a4888190997adf56eb761431 completed March 1, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac119a80e08190b0179f8d413e06fd completed March 7, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac12bac21881908b2a6acf2c241c23 completed March 7, 2026, 11:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac132f09448190b5f789f90328f81f completed March 7, 2026, 11:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.