Triple

T1871473
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benson-class destroyer E39044 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William S. Benson
William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
E548816 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 S. Benson | Statement: [Benson-class destroyer, namedAfter, William S. Benson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Benson
Context triple: [Benson-class destroyer, namedAfter, William S. Benson]
  • A. Thomas U. Walter
    Thomas U. Walter was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing the cast-iron dome of the United States Capitol and shaping key federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • C. William A. Boring
    William A. Boring was an American architect best known for co-designing the main immigration station buildings on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
  • D. William E. Nickerson
    William E. Nickerson was a prominent benefactor and businessman associated with Boston University, for whom the university’s Nickerson Field stadium is named.
  • E. George M. Murray
    George M. Murray was a religious leader and co-author of the 1963 "A Call for Unity" statement by white clergymen that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • 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 S. Benson
Triple: [Benson-class destroyer, namedAfter, William S. Benson]
Generated description
William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Benson
Target entity description: William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
  • A. Thomas U. Walter
    Thomas U. Walter was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing the cast-iron dome of the United States Capitol and shaping key federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • C. William A. Boring
    William A. Boring was an American architect best known for co-designing the main immigration station buildings on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
  • D. William E. Nickerson
    William E. Nickerson was a prominent benefactor and businessman associated with Boston University, for whom the university’s Nickerson Field stadium is named.
  • E. George M. Murray
    George M. Murray was a religious leader and co-author of the 1963 "A Call for Unity" statement by white clergymen that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • 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_69a8862f7074819096afe7fe65e179e9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb0ba90e08190b990875d6e8e7e4a completed March 7, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c097a5c6a4819082f4b9bf113ea33b completed March 23, 2026, 1:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0992baa3c8190a6451ef98f8d29e4 completed March 23, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c09990da18819099fdc8f25f2ddef2 completed March 23, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.