Triple

T19966
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject White House Chief of Staff E397 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
 E19114 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: Denis McDonough | Statement: [White House Chief of Staff, positionHeldBy, Denis McDonough]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Denis McDonough
Context triple: [White House Chief of Staff, positionHeldBy, Denis McDonough]
  • A. Sam Kennedy
    Sam Kennedy is a Major League Baseball executive best known for serving as the president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox.
  • B. Donal McLaughlin
    Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
  • C. Jeff Zients
    Jeff Zients is an American businessman and political advisor who serves as the White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
  • D. Benjamin A. Smith II
    Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
  • E. John V. L. Hogan
    John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
  • 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: Denis McDonough
Triple: [White House Chief of Staff, positionHeldBy, Denis McDonough]
Generated description
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Denis McDonough
Target entity description: Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
  • A. Sam Kennedy
    Sam Kennedy is a Major League Baseball executive best known for serving as the president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox.
  • B. Donal McLaughlin
    Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
  • C. Jeff Zients
    Jeff Zients is an American businessman and political advisor who serves as the White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
  • D. Benjamin A. Smith II
    Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
  • E. John V. L. Hogan
    John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
  • 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_69a240778d288190815c0052ebbbcc91 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2481e91c88190ad0fb09cddc5f446 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2ce31b6108190a7c2f349db99f009 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2cf2748e48190aa071063e74a0aa6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2cfd8ded081908ba70608ba80cebb completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:22 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:14 a.m.