Triple

T16567387
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Commander, Seventh United States Army E402496 entity
Predicate hasNotableOfficeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object William R. Desobry
William R. Desobry was a United States Army general best known for his leadership in armored units during World War II and the Cold War, including senior command roles in Europe.
 E1229979 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 R. Desobry | Statement: [Commander, Seventh United States Army, hasNotableOfficeHolder, William R. Desobry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William R. Desobry
Context triple: [Commander, Seventh United States Army, hasNotableOfficeHolder, William R. Desobry]
  • A. Thomas J. Weatherford
    Thomas J. Weatherford was a prominent 19th-century Texas lawyer and political figure for whom the city of Weatherford, Texas, is named.
  • B. William R. Wilkerson
    William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
  • C. William J. Bordelon
    William J. Bordelon was a United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
  • D. George H. Eldridge
    George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
  • E. James C. Cobb
    James C. Cobb is a prominent American historian known for his influential scholarship on the history, culture, and identity of the American South.
  • 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 R. Desobry
Triple: [Commander, Seventh United States Army, hasNotableOfficeHolder, William R. Desobry]
Generated description
William R. Desobry was a United States Army general best known for his leadership in armored units during World War II and the Cold War, including senior command roles in Europe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William R. Desobry
Target entity description: William R. Desobry was a United States Army general best known for his leadership in armored units during World War II and the Cold War, including senior command roles in Europe.
  • A. Thomas J. Weatherford
    Thomas J. Weatherford was a prominent 19th-century Texas lawyer and political figure for whom the city of Weatherford, Texas, is named.
  • B. William R. Wilkerson
    William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
  • C. William J. Bordelon
    William J. Bordelon was a United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
  • D. George H. Eldridge
    George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
  • E. James C. Cobb
    James C. Cobb is a prominent American historian known for his influential scholarship on the history, culture, and identity of the American South.
  • 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_69d8838648088190acf97ef11fc3f61b completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e35772f6608190a125c7d3c199c3e2 completed April 18, 2026, 10:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a009d2bbe9c81909031d79f93faca6a completed May 10, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a009deba8448190a9f480e6807ea6be completed May 10, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a009e5daf808190ae75d8c3e22aaef2 completed May 10, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.