Triple

T2404196
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Ambassador to West Germany E50237 entity
Predicate lastHolder P3710 FINISHED
Object 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.
E262906 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: Vernon A. Walters | Statement: [United States Ambassador to West Germany, lastHolder, Vernon A. Walters]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vernon A. Walters
Context triple: [United States Ambassador to West Germany, lastHolder, Vernon A. Walters]
  • A. William H. Webster
    William H. Webster is an American judge and public official who uniquely served as both Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Director of Central Intelligence.
  • B. Michael V. Hayden
    Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general who served as director of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • 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. R. James Woolsey Jr.
    R. James Woolsey Jr. is an American lawyer, diplomat, and national security expert who served as Director of Central Intelligence under President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s.
  • E. William K. Reilly
    William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
  • 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: Vernon A. Walters
Triple: [United States Ambassador to West Germany, lastHolder, Vernon A. Walters]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vernon A. Walters
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. William H. Webster
    William H. Webster is an American judge and public official who uniquely served as both Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Director of Central Intelligence.
  • B. Michael V. Hayden
    Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general who served as director of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • 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. R. James Woolsey Jr.
    R. James Woolsey Jr. is an American lawyer, diplomat, and national security expert who served as Director of Central Intelligence under President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s.
  • E. William K. Reilly
    William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
  • 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_69a88b0339a88190a1207333cd271cc9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc8fa151081909bc6be528b29b315 completed March 7, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3e740c88190872aa1a7834d73b0 completed March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeb4b942b08190addc2885fbda0e41 completed March 9, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeb557247c8190920ce3a5db388800 completed March 9, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:58 p.m.