Triple

T143230
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Office of Strategic Services E2897 entity
Predicate keyPerson P256 FINISHED
Object William J. Donovan
William J. Donovan was an American soldier, lawyer, and intelligence officer best known as the founding director of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II predecessor to the CIA.
E26744 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: William J. Donovan | Statement: [Office of Strategic Services, keyPerson, William J. Donovan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. Donovan
Context triple: [Office of Strategic Services, keyPerson, William J. Donovan]
  • A. Eugene E. Covert
    Eugene E. Covert was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and was a noted expert in fluid mechanics and aerospace technology.
  • B. Walter Bedell Smith
    Walter Bedell Smith was a U.S. Army general and senior military diplomat who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff during World War II and later as Director of Central Intelligence.
  • C. J. Edgar Hoover
    J. Edgar Hoover was the long-serving and controversial first Director of the FBI, known for shaping modern American law enforcement and for his extensive domestic intelligence operations.
  • D. Leslie R. Groves Jr.
    Leslie R. Groves Jr. was a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lieutenant general who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the World War II effort to develop the first atomic bombs.
  • E. Josephus Daniels
    Josephus Daniels was an influential American newspaper editor and publisher who later served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • 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: William J. Donovan
Triple: [Office of Strategic Services, keyPerson, William J. Donovan]
Generated description
William J. Donovan was an American soldier, lawyer, and intelligence officer best known as the founding director of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II predecessor to the CIA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. Donovan
Target entity description: William J. Donovan was an American soldier, lawyer, and intelligence officer best known as the founding director of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II predecessor to the CIA.
  • A. Eugene E. Covert
    Eugene E. Covert was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and was a noted expert in fluid mechanics and aerospace technology.
  • B. Walter Bedell Smith
    Walter Bedell Smith was a U.S. Army general and senior military diplomat who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff during World War II and later as Director of Central Intelligence.
  • C. J. Edgar Hoover
    J. Edgar Hoover was the long-serving and controversial first Director of the FBI, known for shaping modern American law enforcement and for his extensive domestic intelligence operations.
  • D. Leslie R. Groves Jr.
    Leslie R. Groves Jr. was a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lieutenant general who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the World War II effort to develop the first atomic bombs.
  • E. Josephus Daniels
    Josephus Daniels was an influential American newspaper editor and publisher who later served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • 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_69a2521e35c08190b28e5c9f1e3c9b59 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a257caf678819092e975d5167f9df4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a332c5dd9c8190af9debeb3fae0ff0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a33326c71c81908c02320901915ce3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3338948808190b6fd60524c721fd5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.