Triple

T2364264
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union E47344 entity
Predicate firstHolder P291 FINISHED
Object William C. Bullitt
William C. Bullitt was an American diplomat, journalist, and close adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for shaping early U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union and later serving as ambassador to France.
E263886 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 C. Bullitt | Statement: [United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, firstHolder, William C. Bullitt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Bullitt
Context triple: [United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, firstHolder, William C. Bullitt]
  • A. William Bundy
    William Bundy was an American foreign policy expert and government official who played a key role in shaping U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War era.
  • B. Edward R. Stettinius Jr.
    Edward R. Stettinius Jr. was a U.S. Secretary of State during World War II who played a key role in wartime diplomacy and the founding of the United Nations.
  • C. George Cabot Lodge
    George Cabot Lodge was an American poet and man of letters from a prominent political family in Massachusetts at the turn of the 20th century.
  • D. U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter
    Christian A. Herter was a mid-20th-century American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, playing a key role in shaping Cold War foreign policy.
  • E. Dean Acheson
    Dean Acheson was a prominent American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State and was a principal architect of Cold War foreign policy, including the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
  • 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 C. Bullitt
Triple: [United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, firstHolder, William C. Bullitt]
Generated description
William C. Bullitt was an American diplomat, journalist, and close adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for shaping early U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union and later serving as ambassador to France.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Bullitt
Target entity description: William C. Bullitt was an American diplomat, journalist, and close adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for shaping early U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union and later serving as ambassador to France.
  • A. William Bundy
    William Bundy was an American foreign policy expert and government official who played a key role in shaping U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War era.
  • B. Edward R. Stettinius Jr.
    Edward R. Stettinius Jr. was a U.S. Secretary of State during World War II who played a key role in wartime diplomacy and the founding of the United Nations.
  • C. George Cabot Lodge
    George Cabot Lodge was an American poet and man of letters from a prominent political family in Massachusetts at the turn of the 20th century.
  • D. U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter
    Christian A. Herter was a mid-20th-century American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, playing a key role in shaping Cold War foreign policy.
  • E. Dean Acheson
    Dean Acheson was a prominent American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State and was a principal architect of Cold War foreign policy, including the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
  • 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_69a88a1a4a6081908645b0f2914521ab completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc746e7048190a09a38401b367628 completed March 7, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3c5c4b881909ad3223206fb2940 completed March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeb5ecd0208190930ce8f991869426 completed March 9, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeb6497b7c8190a95913e54fd2fb92 completed March 9, 2026, noon
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:55 p.m.