Triple

T12684880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Farm Security Administration E303041 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Will W. Alexander
Will W. Alexander was an American educator and social reformer best known for his leadership in New Deal-era rural and agricultural relief efforts.
E1494163 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: Will W. Alexander | Statement: [Farm Security Administration, director, Will W. Alexander]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Will W. Alexander
Context triple: [Farm Security Administration, director, Will W. Alexander]
  • A. John W. Alexander
    John W. Alexander was an American portrait and mural painter associated with the late 19th-century art world and known for his elegant, atmospheric style.
  • B. William A. Wells
    William A. Wells was a frontiersman and soldier in early American history, noted for his complex role in Native American relations and the Northwest Indian War.
  • C. Albert D. Wheelon
    Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
  • D. James L. Wilmeth
    James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • E. Louis D. Wilson
    Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
  • 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: Will W. Alexander
Triple: [Farm Security Administration, director, Will W. Alexander]
Generated description
Will W. Alexander was an American educator and social reformer best known for his leadership in New Deal-era rural and agricultural relief efforts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Will W. Alexander
Target entity description: Will W. Alexander was an American educator and social reformer best known for his leadership in New Deal-era rural and agricultural relief efforts.
  • A. John W. Alexander
    John W. Alexander was an American portrait and mural painter associated with the late 19th-century art world and known for his elegant, atmospheric style.
  • B. William A. Wells
    William A. Wells was a frontiersman and soldier in early American history, noted for his complex role in Native American relations and the Northwest Indian War.
  • C. Albert D. Wheelon
    Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
  • D. James L. Wilmeth
    James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • E. Louis D. Wilson
    Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
  • 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_69d7bdee64a08190801c6d470aefd723 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d961d7cd4c81909521839ef5859799 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a0f7a2ba0819086919b4369d8177e completed May 17, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a1121d7d08190b77e3701044aed3f completed May 17, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a11698c2481908a8b86038b00ac07 completed May 17, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:21 p.m.