Triple

T19005567
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Short E465069 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Short
William Short was an American diplomat and close associate of Thomas Jefferson who served as the United States' chargé d'affaires in France during the early years of the French Revolution.
E1353490 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 Short | Statement: [Short, hasNotableBearer, William Short]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Short
Context triple: [Short, hasNotableBearer, William Short]
  • A. William Buckley
    William Buckley is the son of American political satirist and novelist Christopher Buckley.
  • B. William Buckley
    William Buckley is a historical English convict whose survival and integration into an Aboriginal Australian community inspired the protagonist of Alan Garner’s novel "Strandloper."
  • C. William Buckley
    William Buckley is an American conservative author, commentator, and politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from New York from 1971 to 1977.
  • D. William Grady Little
    William Grady Little is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for managing the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 2000s.
  • E. Henry McCullough
    Henry McCullough was a Northern Irish guitarist and singer best known for his work with Paul McCartney and Wings, as well as his contributions to Joe Cocker’s Grease Band and various solo projects.
  • 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 Short
Triple: [Short, hasNotableBearer, William Short]
Generated description
William Short was an American diplomat and close associate of Thomas Jefferson who served as the United States' chargé d'affaires in France during the early years of the French Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Short
Target entity description: William Short was an American diplomat and close associate of Thomas Jefferson who served as the United States' chargé d'affaires in France during the early years of the French Revolution.
  • A. William Buckley
    William Buckley is the son of American political satirist and novelist Christopher Buckley.
  • B. William Buckley
    William Buckley is an American conservative author, commentator, and politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from New York from 1971 to 1977.
  • C. William Buckley
    William Buckley is a historical English convict whose survival and integration into an Aboriginal Australian community inspired the protagonist of Alan Garner’s novel "Strandloper."
  • D. William Grady Little
    William Grady Little is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for managing the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 2000s.
  • E. Henry McCullough
    Henry McCullough was a Northern Irish guitarist and singer best known for his work with Paul McCartney and Wings, as well as his contributions to Joe Cocker’s Grease Band and various solo projects.
  • 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_69d8dd01a56c81909694a128c66b21d7 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d6a494688190a277b2cddf300235 completed April 20, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05b45fe5d481908a50081362a5673c completed May 14, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05b5dfac0c8190b67921280d5ab1fe completed May 14, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05b68cf4c0819082f461b002383a3f completed May 14, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:01 p.m.