Triple

T13098615
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Elliott Johnston Jr. E310656 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861 and is often criticized for his failure to prevent the secession of Southern states leading up to the Civil War.
E16575 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: James Buchanan | Statement: [Henry Elliott Johnston Jr., relative, James Buchanan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Buchanan
Context triple: [Henry Elliott Johnston Jr., relative, James Buchanan]
  • A. James Buchanan
    James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, whose ineffective leadership in the years just before the Civil War is widely criticized by historians.
  • B. James McGill Buchanan Jr.
    James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist and Nobel laureate best known for developing public choice theory, which applies economic principles to political decision-making.
  • C. James Knox Taylor
    James Knox Taylor was an American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, overseeing the design of numerous prominent federal buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. James G. Polk
    James G. Polk was an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter known for his work uncovering political corruption.
  • E. James K. Polk
    James K. Polk was the 11th president of the United States, known for his expansionist policies that led to significant territorial gains including much of the present-day American Southwest.
  • 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: James Buchanan
Triple: [Henry Elliott Johnston Jr., relative, James Buchanan]
Generated description
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861 and is often criticized for his failure to prevent the secession of Southern states leading up to the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Buchanan
Target entity description: James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861 and is often criticized for his failure to prevent the secession of Southern states leading up to the Civil War.
  • A. James Buchanan chosen
    James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, whose ineffective leadership in the years just before the Civil War is widely criticized by historians.
  • B. James McGill Buchanan Jr.
    James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist and Nobel laureate best known for developing public choice theory, which applies economic principles to political decision-making.
  • C. James Knox Taylor
    James Knox Taylor was an American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, overseeing the design of numerous prominent federal buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. James G. Polk
    James G. Polk was an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter known for his work uncovering political corruption.
  • E. James K. Polk
    James K. Polk was the 11th president of the United States, known for his expansionist policies that led to significant territorial gains including much of the present-day American Southwest.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d806a872d08190a329806f8ff30df4 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d981500d34819097037b3c3c33627b completed April 10, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7396e6cf881908b4cc3836501ed08 completed May 3, 2026, 12:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f73a7ca9048190948c1bceede2a09c completed May 3, 2026, 12:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f73abc1c9481909d509eb02bafd909 completed May 3, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:04 p.m.