Triple

T16987783
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philip L. Graham E412113 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object helped secure television station licenses for The Washington Post Company
Philip L. Graham was an influential American newspaper publisher and president of The Washington Post Company who played a key role in its mid-20th-century expansion and prominence.
 E1244927 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: helped secure television station licenses for The Washington Post Company | Statement: [Philip L. Graham, significantEvent, helped secure television station licenses for The Washington Post Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: helped secure television station licenses for The Washington Post Company
Context triple: [Philip L. Graham, significantEvent, helped secure television station licenses for The Washington Post Company]
  • A. Tegna Inc.
    Tegna Inc. is a major American media company that owns and operates numerous local television stations and digital media properties across the United States.
  • B. Taft Broadcasting
    Taft Broadcasting was a major American media conglomerate that owned television and radio stations, produced syndicated programming and cartoons, and operated several amusement parks during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Sinclair Broadcast Group
    Sinclair Broadcast Group is a major American telecommunications conglomerate and one of the largest owners and operators of television stations in the United States.
  • D. Emmis Communications
    Emmis Communications is an American media company best known for owning and operating radio stations and other broadcast properties.
  • E. Cooke Broadcasting
    Cooke Broadcasting was a media company in the United States that operated television and radio stations under the ownership of businessman Jack Kent Cooke.
  • 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: helped secure television station licenses for The Washington Post Company
Triple: [Philip L. Graham, significantEvent, helped secure television station licenses for The Washington Post Company]
Generated description
Philip L. Graham was an influential American newspaper publisher and president of The Washington Post Company who played a key role in its mid-20th-century expansion and prominence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: helped secure television station licenses for The Washington Post Company
Target entity description: Philip L. Graham was an influential American newspaper publisher and president of The Washington Post Company who played a key role in its mid-20th-century expansion and prominence.
  • A. Tegna Inc.
    Tegna Inc. is a major American media company that owns and operates numerous local television stations and digital media properties across the United States.
  • B. Taft Broadcasting
    Taft Broadcasting was a major American media conglomerate that owned television and radio stations, produced syndicated programming and cartoons, and operated several amusement parks during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Sinclair Broadcast Group
    Sinclair Broadcast Group is a major American telecommunications conglomerate and one of the largest owners and operators of television stations in the United States.
  • D. Emmis Communications
    Emmis Communications is an American media company best known for owning and operating radio stations and other broadcast properties.
  • E. Cooke Broadcasting
    Cooke Broadcasting was a media company in the United States that operated television and radio stations under the ownership of businessman Jack Kent Cooke.
  • 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_69d886ca8f348190812768ea8d5055ce completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d27cd2048190800a60ae653e11e1 completed April 18, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00dc12e308819093e7f8933cdd6ba9 completed May 10, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0114d5aeb0819086f1a5d279ac0d0f completed May 10, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0115c967b0819088e2335fd45d755b completed May 10, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.