Triple

T23265348
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Francis G. Newlands E588130 entity
Predicate fatherInLaw P18081 FINISHED
Object William Sharon
William Sharon was a 19th-century American businessman and U.S. Senator from Nevada who amassed a fortune through mining and railroad investments tied to the Comstock Lode.
E1576880 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 Sharon | Statement: [Francis G. Newlands, fatherInLaw, William Sharon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sharon
Context triple: [Francis G. Newlands, fatherInLaw, William Sharon]
  • A. Andrew W. Marshall
    Andrew W. Marshall was a long-serving and influential U.S. defense strategist renowned for shaping Pentagon long-term military planning and competitive strategy during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
  • B. Vernon A. Walters
    Vernon A. Walters was an American Army lieutenant general, diplomat, and intelligence officer who served in key Cold War roles, including Deputy Director of the CIA and later U.S. ambassador to several countries.
  • C. George J. Tenet
    George J. Tenet is an American intelligence official who served as the head of the CIA during the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the period surrounding the September 11 attacks and the lead-up to the Iraq War.
  • D. Richard Bissell
    Richard Bissell was an American author and playwright best known for his novel "7½ Cents," which he co-adapted into the hit Broadway musical and subsequent film "The Pajama Game."
  • E. Richard Mervin Bissell Jr.
    Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. was an American CIA officer best known as the chief architect of the Bay of Pigs invasion during the Cold War.
  • 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 Sharon
Triple: [Francis G. Newlands, fatherInLaw, William Sharon]
Generated description
William Sharon was a 19th-century American businessman and U.S. Senator from Nevada who amassed a fortune through mining and railroad investments tied to the Comstock Lode.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sharon
Target entity description: William Sharon was a 19th-century American businessman and U.S. Senator from Nevada who amassed a fortune through mining and railroad investments tied to the Comstock Lode.
  • A. Andrew W. Marshall
    Andrew W. Marshall was a long-serving and influential U.S. defense strategist renowned for shaping Pentagon long-term military planning and competitive strategy during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
  • B. Vernon A. Walters
    Vernon A. Walters was an American Army lieutenant general, diplomat, and intelligence officer who served in key Cold War roles, including Deputy Director of the CIA and later U.S. ambassador to several countries.
  • C. George J. Tenet
    George J. Tenet is an American intelligence official who served as the head of the CIA during the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the period surrounding the September 11 attacks and the lead-up to the Iraq War.
  • D. Richard Bissell
    Richard Bissell was an American author and playwright best known for his novel "7½ Cents," which he co-adapted into the hit Broadway musical and subsequent film "The Pajama Game."
  • E. Richard Mervin Bissell Jr.
    Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. was an American CIA officer best known as the chief architect of the Bay of Pigs invasion during the Cold War.
  • 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_69e25d148adc819088efbf42672604e9 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f194cc3b908190aaefd036aa2b52b5 completed April 29, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c3f723d4081909c2ff75ba4ada497 completed May 19, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c405be1188190b6622665e448bbe7 completed May 19, 2026, 10:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c40c6562481908689eca2a4997115 completed May 19, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:34 p.m.