Triple

T9515358
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gopher E229510 entity
Predicate creator P184 FINISHED
Object Mark P. McCahill
Mark P. McCahill is an American computer scientist best known for pioneering early internet technologies, including creating the Gopher protocol for distributed document search and retrieval.
E863065 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: Mark P. McCahill | Statement: [Gopher, creator, Mark P. McCahill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark P. McCahill
Context triple: [Gopher, creator, Mark P. McCahill]
  • A. Craig A. Stough
    Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
  • B. Michael P. Cahill
    Michael P. Cahill is an American local politician who has served as the mayor of Beverly, Massachusetts.
  • C. Timothy J. Geraghty
    Timothy J. Geraghty is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general best known for commanding American forces during the Multinational Force in Lebanon deployment in the early 1980s.
  • D. Daniel W. Carmichael
    Daniel W. Carmichael was a notable individual significant enough in his community or field to have a place or institution named in his honor.
  • E. Timothy L. Pflueger
    Timothy L. Pflueger was a prominent American architect known for his influential Art Deco and Moderne designs in the San Francisco Bay Area, including major theaters, skyscrapers, and civic projects.
  • 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: Mark P. McCahill
Triple: [Gopher, creator, Mark P. McCahill]
Generated description
Mark P. McCahill is an American computer scientist best known for pioneering early internet technologies, including creating the Gopher protocol for distributed document search and retrieval.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark P. McCahill
Target entity description: Mark P. McCahill is an American computer scientist best known for pioneering early internet technologies, including creating the Gopher protocol for distributed document search and retrieval.
  • A. Craig A. Stough
    Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
  • B. Michael P. Cahill
    Michael P. Cahill is an American local politician who has served as the mayor of Beverly, Massachusetts.
  • C. Timothy J. Geraghty
    Timothy J. Geraghty is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general best known for commanding American forces during the Multinational Force in Lebanon deployment in the early 1980s.
  • D. Daniel W. Carmichael
    Daniel W. Carmichael was a notable individual significant enough in his community or field to have a place or institution named in his honor.
  • E. Timothy L. Pflueger
    Timothy L. Pflueger was a prominent American architect known for his influential Art Deco and Moderne designs in the San Francisco Bay Area, including major theaters, skyscrapers, and civic projects.
  • 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_69ca84777560819084cddd999badc1aa completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd986d5af08190a001c5a5ff647d4d completed April 1, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d87dfc46e08190bea27c11b987cb6d completed April 10, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8837e70508190b03e8983b2617eac completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d889cc40648190a1d80b955e676ea5 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:58 p.m.