Triple
T14694792
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | David McCullough |
E345125
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | David Gaub McCullough |
E345125
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: David Gaub McCullough | Statement: [David McCullough, fullName, David Gaub McCullough]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Gaub McCullough Context triple: [David McCullough, fullName, David Gaub McCullough]
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A.
David McCullough
chosen
David McCullough was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for his richly detailed biographies of U.S. presidents and major works of narrative history.
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B.
Daniel Boorstin
Daniel Boorstin was an influential American historian, professor, and Librarian of Congress known for his wide-ranging works on American history and culture, including "The Americans" trilogy.
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C.
Walter Tuchman
Walter Tuchman is a cryptographer best known for his role in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) at IBM.
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D.
Walter Lord
Walter Lord was an American historian and author best known for his meticulously researched narrative account of the Titanic disaster, "A Night to Remember."
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E.
Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d822e34b348190ada4d1cdb6c7c226 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69deb586e7108190be644db9cf9a4d99 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 9:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fde18e279c8190814f90e947734541 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.