Triple

T11803418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ralph Julian Rivers E280683 entity
Predicate succeededByInU.S.HouseRole P33240 FINISHED
Object Howard Wallace Pollock
Howard Wallace Pollock was an American Republican politician who represented Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
E947247 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Howard Wallace Pollock | Statement: [Ralph Julian Rivers, succeededByInU.S.HouseRole, Howard Wallace Pollock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Wallace Pollock
Context triple: [Ralph Julian Rivers, succeededByInU.S.HouseRole, Howard Wallace Pollock]
  • A. Edward Abel Smith
    Edward Abel Smith, also known as Ned Rocknroll, is a private British businessman best known as the husband of actress Kate Winslet and a member of the Branson family through his work with Virgin Galactic.
  • B. Athol Estes Porter
    Athol Estes Porter was the wife of American short story writer O. Henry and the inspiration for several of his early works.
  • C. Howard Vollum
    Howard Vollum was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Tektronix, a pioneering company in oscilloscopes and electronic test equipment.
  • D. Clifford Milburn Holland
    Clifford Milburn Holland was an American civil engineer best known for leading the design and construction of the pioneering vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River that now bears his name.
  • E. Herbert H. Bateman
    Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
  • 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: Howard Wallace Pollock
Triple: [Ralph Julian Rivers, succeededByInU.S.HouseRole, Howard Wallace Pollock]
Generated description
Howard Wallace Pollock was an American Republican politician who represented Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Wallace Pollock
Target entity description: Howard Wallace Pollock was an American Republican politician who represented Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • A. Edward Abel Smith
    Edward Abel Smith, also known as Ned Rocknroll, is a private British businessman best known as the husband of actress Kate Winslet and a member of the Branson family through his work with Virgin Galactic.
  • B. Athol Estes Porter
    Athol Estes Porter was the wife of American short story writer O. Henry and the inspiration for several of his early works.
  • C. Howard Vollum
    Howard Vollum was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Tektronix, a pioneering company in oscilloscopes and electronic test equipment.
  • D. Clifford Milburn Holland
    Clifford Milburn Holland was an American civil engineer best known for leading the design and construction of the pioneering vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River that now bears his name.
  • E. Herbert H. Bateman
    Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: succeededByInU.S.HouseRole
Context triple: [Ralph Julian Rivers, succeededByInU.S.HouseRole, Howard Wallace Pollock]
  • A. succeededBy (U.S. Senate seat)
    Indicates that one U.S. Senate seat holder is directly followed in office by another specific individual.
  • B. succeededByAsSenateMajorityLeader
    Indicates that one individual was followed in office by another individual specifically in the role of Senate Majority Leader.
  • C. succeededByInDemocraticPartyControl
    Indicates that control held by one entity was later replaced by control held by another entity within the Democratic Party.
  • D. precededInSenateBy
    Indicates that one officeholder directly held a given Senate seat before another officeholder, in terms of succession to that seat.
  • E. successorOfficeHolder chosen
    Indicates that one office holder directly follows another in occupying the same official position.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d6ab26aae88190b2489efcb2a24234 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a658f918819092c2db05fe2ab0ce completed April 10, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f1314300248190847b9c61bbfda121 completed April 28, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f141b1c50c819081a8055d951a49de completed April 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f14fcb63208190ad1185ad66314fa9 completed April 29, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d8a24e9a088190aff7932d1ff93dbf completed April 10, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.