Triple

T2364265
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union E47344 entity
Predicate lastHolder P3710 FINISHED
Object Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Jack F. Matlock Jr. is an American diplomat and scholar best known for serving as the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the closing years of the Cold War.
E259751 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: Jack F. Matlock Jr. | Statement: [United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, lastHolder, Jack F. Matlock Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Context triple: [United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, lastHolder, Jack F. Matlock Jr.]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Frank Wisner
    Frank Wisner was a prominent American intelligence officer who became a key architect of early U.S. covert operations during and after World War II.
  • C. James W. McCord Jr.
    James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
  • D. William Colby
    William Colby was an American intelligence officer who became Director of Central Intelligence, overseeing the CIA during a turbulent period in the 1970s.
  • E. Michael Maddox
    Michael Maddox was an English theatrical entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Russian theatre in the late 18th century, notably helping establish what became the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • 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: Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Triple: [United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, lastHolder, Jack F. Matlock Jr.]
Generated description
Jack F. Matlock Jr. is an American diplomat and scholar best known for serving as the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the closing years of the Cold War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Target entity description: Jack F. Matlock Jr. is an American diplomat and scholar best known for serving as the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the closing years of the Cold War.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Frank Wisner
    Frank Wisner was a prominent American intelligence officer who became a key architect of early U.S. covert operations during and after World War II.
  • C. James W. McCord Jr.
    James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
  • D. William Colby
    William Colby was an American intelligence officer who became Director of Central Intelligence, overseeing the CIA during a turbulent period in the 1970s.
  • E. Michael Maddox
    Michael Maddox was an English theatrical entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Russian theatre in the late 18th century, notably helping establish what became the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • 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_69aea896e0388190aabff2d70787dc43 completed March 9, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aea91ce164819091aa24b287f9fb8e completed March 9, 2026, 11:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aea999b864819084134c670e7c5d9c completed March 9, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:55 p.m.