Triple

T1111157
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Progressive Era E8085 entity
Predicate significantFigure P428 FINISHED
Object Robert M. La Follette
Robert M. La Follette was a prominent early 20th-century American politician and reformer known for championing progressive causes such as government regulation, workers’ rights, and opposition to corporate power.
E145608 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: Robert M. La Follette | Statement: [Progressive Era, significantFigure, Robert M. La Follette]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert M. La Follette
Context triple: [Progressive Era, significantFigure, Robert M. La Follette]
  • A. Hugh J. Chisholm
    Hugh J. Chisholm was an American industrialist and paper magnate best known for building one of the largest paper manufacturing empires in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. John Hugh McNary
    John Hugh McNary was an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in the early 20th century.
  • C. Hiram Johnson
    Hiram Johnson was a prominent early 20th-century American progressive politician who served as governor of California and later as a long-tenured U.S. senator.
  • D. George W. Norris
    George W. Norris was a progressive Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska renowned for his political independence, advocacy of New Deal reforms, and defense of constitutional principles, which earned him recognition in "Profiles in Courage."
  • E. Charles L. McNary
    Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
  • 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: Robert M. La Follette
Triple: [Progressive Era, significantFigure, Robert M. La Follette]
Generated description
Robert M. La Follette was a prominent early 20th-century American politician and reformer known for championing progressive causes such as government regulation, workers’ rights, and opposition to corporate power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert M. La Follette
Target entity description: Robert M. La Follette was a prominent early 20th-century American politician and reformer known for championing progressive causes such as government regulation, workers’ rights, and opposition to corporate power.
  • A. Hugh J. Chisholm
    Hugh J. Chisholm was an American industrialist and paper magnate best known for building one of the largest paper manufacturing empires in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. John Hugh McNary
    John Hugh McNary was an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in the early 20th century.
  • C. Hiram Johnson
    Hiram Johnson was a prominent early 20th-century American progressive politician who served as governor of California and later as a long-tenured U.S. senator.
  • D. George W. Norris
    George W. Norris was a progressive Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska renowned for his political independence, advocacy of New Deal reforms, and defense of constitutional principles, which earned him recognition in "Profiles in Courage."
  • E. Charles L. McNary
    Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bb7742788190b320aec99e76ca41 completed March 1, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac9971114c81909769b3ad78b95189 completed March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9df823208190ae27a659ac283e2a completed March 7, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9e4788d08190b2a6f34bbf9f2671 completed March 7, 2026, 9:53 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.