Triple

T18403377
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ted Constant Convocation Center E450053 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Theodore F. Constant
Theodore F. Constant was a prominent benefactor and businessman whose philanthropy significantly supported Old Dominion University, leading to a major campus arena being named in his honor.
 E1371514 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: Theodore F. Constant | Statement: [Ted Constant Convocation Center, namedAfter, Theodore F. Constant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Theodore F. Constant
Context triple: [Ted Constant Convocation Center, namedAfter, Theodore F. Constant]
  • A. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • B. Joseph A. Howard
    Joseph A. Howard was the husband of American film actress Priscilla Lane.
  • C. George A. Trenholm
    George A. Trenholm was an American merchant and politician who served as the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury during the final year of the American Civil War.
  • D. William M. Shepherd
    William M. Shepherd is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut best known for commanding the first crew of the International Space Station.
  • E. Theodore F. MacManus
    Theodore F. MacManus was a pioneering American advertising copywriter renowned for his influential early 20th-century automobile campaigns, particularly for Cadillac.
  • 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: Theodore F. Constant
Triple: [Ted Constant Convocation Center, namedAfter, Theodore F. Constant]
Generated description
Theodore F. Constant was a prominent benefactor and businessman whose philanthropy significantly supported Old Dominion University, leading to a major campus arena being named in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Theodore F. Constant
Target entity description: Theodore F. Constant was a prominent benefactor and businessman whose philanthropy significantly supported Old Dominion University, leading to a major campus arena being named in his honor.
  • A. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • B. Joseph A. Howard
    Joseph A. Howard was the husband of American film actress Priscilla Lane.
  • C. George A. Trenholm
    George A. Trenholm was an American merchant and politician who served as the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury during the final year of the American Civil War.
  • D. William M. Shepherd
    William M. Shepherd is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut best known for commanding the first crew of the International Space Station.
  • E. Theodore F. MacManus
    Theodore F. MacManus was a pioneering American advertising copywriter renowned for his influential early 20th-century automobile campaigns, particularly for Cadillac.
  • 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_69d8b9fab8a8819086a9ddc0871715e0 completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5195509cc8190bd4e91adb9b4a0ce completed April 19, 2026, 6:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0723f109d48190a70174c9330123cb completed May 15, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07251f1fec8190afddb45f3e748a59 completed May 15, 2026, 1:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0725c74ce88190b38c2688b3ad92ee completed May 15, 2026, 1:55 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:46 a.m.