Triple

T1578600
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Donovan E33709 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object William Donovan III
William Donovan III is the son of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
E178651 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 Donovan III | Statement: [Billy Donovan, hasChild, William Donovan III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Donovan III
Context triple: [Billy Donovan, hasChild, William Donovan III]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Lewis Powell
    Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
  • D. Frank Wisner
    Frank Wisner was a prominent American intelligence officer who became a key architect of early U.S. covert operations during and after World War II.
  • E. William Sims
    William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
  • 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 Donovan III
Triple: [Billy Donovan, hasChild, William Donovan III]
Generated description
William Donovan III is the son of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Donovan III
Target entity description: William Donovan III is the son of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Lewis Powell
    Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
  • D. Frank Wisner
    Frank Wisner was a prominent American intelligence officer who became a key architect of early U.S. covert operations during and after World War II.
  • E. William Sims
    William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
  • 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_69a885f27a4c8190a4622252cdf54c00 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a908d67bd08190afa8c504ed5273ee completed March 5, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad402e1cc48190bb69628bc63d6f4c completed March 8, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad40e7db808190a94dd9932ea8d6c4 completed March 8, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad417c2ff48190af8e62a015b45c6b completed March 8, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.