Triple

T9958516
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Olympia Snowe E195503 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object John R. McKernan Jr.
John R. McKernan Jr. is an American Republican politician and businessman who served as governor of Maine from 1987 to 1995 and earlier as a U.S. Representative.
 E887094 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 R. McKernan Jr. | Statement: [Olympia Snowe, spouse, John R. McKernan Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John R. McKernan Jr.
Context triple: [Olympia Snowe, spouse, John R. McKernan Jr.]
  • A. William A. McGonagle
    William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
  • B. James T. McNamara
    James T. McNamara was a public official who served as New York State's Industrial Commissioner, overseeing labor and industry-related policies and regulations.
  • C. James B. McNamara
    James B. McNamara was an American labor union activist best known for his role in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, a pivotal event in early 20th-century labor history.
  • D. Charles M. Keally
    Charles M. Keally is an archaeologist and scholar known for his research on Japanese prehistory and the Jomon period.
  • E. John P. McGovern
    John P. McGovern was an American allergist, medical educator, and philanthropist known for his significant contributions to medicine and support of biomedical humanities and ethics.
  • 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 R. McKernan Jr.
Triple: [Olympia Snowe, spouse, John R. McKernan Jr.]
Generated description
John R. McKernan Jr. is an American Republican politician and businessman who served as governor of Maine from 1987 to 1995 and earlier as a U.S. Representative.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John R. McKernan Jr.
Target entity description: John R. McKernan Jr. is an American Republican politician and businessman who served as governor of Maine from 1987 to 1995 and earlier as a U.S. Representative.
  • A. William A. McGonagle
    William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
  • B. James T. McNamara
    James T. McNamara was a public official who served as New York State's Industrial Commissioner, overseeing labor and industry-related policies and regulations.
  • C. James B. McNamara
    James B. McNamara was an American labor union activist best known for his role in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, a pivotal event in early 20th-century labor history.
  • D. Charles M. Keally
    Charles M. Keally is an archaeologist and scholar known for his research on Japanese prehistory and the Jomon period.
  • E. John P. McGovern
    John P. McGovern was an American allergist, medical educator, and philanthropist known for his significant contributions to medicine and support of biomedical humanities and ethics.
  • 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_69ca82eaaa008190a54fa1a9f954b9ad completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb6cec7dc8190bb7e43c82a317707 completed April 2, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de83df5bf881908d775354ace05e66 completed April 14, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de883488b481909f151d8a7c246aa1 completed April 14, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de8e80fe80819088ac76bb5abc58f0 completed April 14, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:46 p.m.