Triple
T17738656
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James McCain |
E442791
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entity |
| Predicate | siblingOf |
P363
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Douglas McCain
Douglas McCain is an American politician and member of the prominent McCain family, known primarily as the brother of U.S. Senator James McCain.
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E1296662
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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: Douglas McCain | Statement: [James McCain, siblingOf, Douglas McCain]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas McCain Context triple: [James McCain, siblingOf, Douglas McCain]
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A.
Michael A. McCabe
Michael A. McCabe is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Westfield, Massachusetts.
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B.
Paul N. McCloskey Jr.
Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey Jr. is a former Republican U.S. Congressman from California known for his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War and his role as a reform-minded critic of executive power and intelligence abuses.
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C.
Donald McEnery
Donald McEnery is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Pixar animated film "A Bug's Life."
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D.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
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E.
Will McDonough
Will McDonough is an American sports journalist best known for his long tenure as an NFL reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe and as a pioneering football analyst on national television.
- 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: Douglas McCain Triple: [James McCain, siblingOf, Douglas McCain]
Generated description
Douglas McCain is an American politician and member of the prominent McCain family, known primarily as the brother of U.S. Senator James McCain.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas McCain Target entity description: Douglas McCain is an American politician and member of the prominent McCain family, known primarily as the brother of U.S. Senator James McCain.
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A.
Michael A. McCabe
Michael A. McCabe is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Westfield, Massachusetts.
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B.
Paul N. McCloskey Jr.
Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey Jr. is a former Republican U.S. Congressman from California known for his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War and his role as a reform-minded critic of executive power and intelligence abuses.
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C.
Donald McEnery
Donald McEnery is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Pixar animated film "A Bug's Life."
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D.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
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E.
Will McDonough
Will McDonough is an American sports journalist best known for his long tenure as an NFL reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe and as a pioneering football analyst on national television.
- 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_69d8b9ed3a2081909b2ec0d4dd2f4c37 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e47acb05848190a4b7edb98f15b8c6 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 6:48 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a03211d93e081909aaa6287be791407 |
completed | May 12, 2026, 12:46 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a032261fd1081909ba0b04db93d16da |
completed | May 12, 2026, 12:51 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a03232d682c8190bb9b8773609c83c2 |
completed | May 12, 2026, 12:55 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:09 a.m.