Triple
T12780573
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lord & Thomas |
E305495
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableEmployee |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Theodore F. MacManus
Theodore F. MacManus was a pioneering American advertising copywriter renowned for his influential early 20th-century automobile campaigns, particularly for Cadillac.
|
E1111772
|
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: Theodore F. MacManus | Statement: [Lord & Thomas, notableEmployee, Theodore F. MacManus]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore F. MacManus Context triple: [Lord & Thomas, notableEmployee, Theodore F. MacManus]
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A.
Arthur E. Molloy
Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
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B.
Patrick H. McCarren
Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
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C.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
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D.
Henry J. Daly
Henry J. Daly was a Washington, D.C. police officer whose service and death in the line of duty led to a major municipal building being named in his honor.
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E.
Edmund C. Lynch
Edmund C. Lynch was an American financier and co-founder of the investment firm Merrill Lynch, which became one of the largest brokerage and financial services companies in the world.
- 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: Theodore F. MacManus Triple: [Lord & Thomas, notableEmployee, Theodore F. MacManus]
Generated description
Theodore F. MacManus was a pioneering American advertising copywriter renowned for his influential early 20th-century automobile campaigns, particularly for Cadillac.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore F. MacManus Target entity description: Theodore F. MacManus was a pioneering American advertising copywriter renowned for his influential early 20th-century automobile campaigns, particularly for Cadillac.
-
A.
Arthur E. Molloy
Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
-
B.
Patrick H. McCarren
Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
-
C.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
-
D.
Henry J. Daly
Henry J. Daly was a Washington, D.C. police officer whose service and death in the line of duty led to a major municipal building being named in his honor.
-
E.
Edmund C. Lynch
Edmund C. Lynch was an American financier and co-founder of the investment firm Merrill Lynch, which became one of the largest brokerage and financial services companies in the world.
- 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d96e5a5680819095dcd491486d23e7 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fdd5b2fb308190ab041a9cfe39087c |
completed | May 8, 2026, 12:23 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fdd75d410481909a33799507689f21 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 12:30 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fdd7ddc1d88190bc56b1603093a5db |
completed | May 8, 2026, 12:32 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.