Triple

T143290
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William H. Foege E2898 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Foege
Foege is the surname of William H. Foege, an American epidemiologist renowned for his pivotal role in the global eradication of smallpox.
 E28736 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: Foege | Statement: [William H. Foege, familyName, Foege]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Foege
Context triple: [William H. Foege, familyName, Foege]
  • A. Milhous
    Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
  • B. Golus
    Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
  • C. Bladon
    Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
  • D. Erwin
    Erwin is a masculine given name of German origin, historically associated with figures such as the World War II field marshal Erwin Rommel.
  • E. Hölldobler
    Hölldobler is a German surname most notably associated with Bert Hölldobler, a prominent behavioral ecologist and myrmecologist known for his research on ants.
  • 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: Foege
Triple: [William H. Foege, familyName, Foege]
Generated description
Foege is the surname of William H. Foege, an American epidemiologist renowned for his pivotal role in the global eradication of smallpox.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Foege
Target entity description: Foege is the surname of William H. Foege, an American epidemiologist renowned for his pivotal role in the global eradication of smallpox.
  • A. Milhous
    Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
  • B. Golus
    Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
  • C. Bladon
    Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
  • D. Erwin
    Erwin is a masculine given name of German origin, historically associated with figures such as the World War II field marshal Erwin Rommel.
  • E. Hölldobler
    Hölldobler is a German surname most notably associated with Bert Hölldobler, a prominent behavioral ecologist and myrmecologist known for his research on ants.
  • 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_69a352734730819091211462a23204ea completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a355f97db8819080665fa585955380 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3567126dc81909853cb7dab5609c1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.