Triple

T13811759
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benjamin Stoddert E331908 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object Robert Smith
Robert Smith was an early 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and later as Secretary of State under President James Madison.
 E1064472 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 Smith | Statement: [Benjamin Stoddert, succeededBy, Robert Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Smith
Context triple: [Benjamin Stoddert, succeededBy, Robert Smith]
  • A. Robert Smith
    Robert Smith was an 18th-century architect known for designing prominent colonial American buildings, including Nassau Hall at Princeton.
  • B. Robert Smith
    Robert Smith is the brother of Samuel Smith.
  • C. Robert Smith
    Robert Smith is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band The Cure.
  • D. Robert Talbot
    Robert Talbot is a fictional character in the 1961 romantic comedy film "Come September," portrayed by Rock Hudson as a wealthy American businessman who spends his summers at his Italian villa.
  • E. J. C. Squire
    J. C. Squire was a British poet, critic, and editor best known for leading the Georgian poetry movement and shaping early 20th-century English literary taste.
  • 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 Smith
Triple: [Benjamin Stoddert, succeededBy, Robert Smith]
Generated description
Robert Smith was an early 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and later as Secretary of State under President James Madison.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Smith
Target entity description: Robert Smith was an early 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and later as Secretary of State under President James Madison.
  • A. Robert Smith
    Robert Smith was an 18th-century architect known for designing prominent colonial American buildings, including Nassau Hall at Princeton.
  • B. Robert Smith
    Robert Smith is the brother of Samuel Smith.
  • C. Robert Smith
    Robert Smith is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band The Cure.
  • D. Robert Talbot
    Robert Talbot is a fictional character in the 1961 romantic comedy film "Come September," portrayed by Rock Hudson as a wealthy American businessman who spends his summers at his Italian villa.
  • E. J. C. Squire
    J. C. Squire was a British poet, critic, and editor best known for leading the Georgian poetry movement and shaping early 20th-century English literary taste.
  • 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_69d81c59f8808190a851bc56afdc55e9 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de026ff6b481908066d6bf27064417 completed April 14, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b8dc1ec0819098c4f32eb3991613 completed May 3, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7ba6558fc819082dae55863a9a3b1 completed May 3, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7bb15d31c81909959e50219c4d905 completed May 3, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:12 p.m.