Triple
T241968
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | United States Senate Watergate Committee |
E4949
|
entity |
| Predicate | member |
P10
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sam Ervin |
E26603
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Sam Ervin | Statement: [United States Senate Watergate Committee, member, Sam Ervin]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Ervin Context triple: [United States Senate Watergate Committee, member, Sam Ervin]
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A.
Sam Ervin
chosen
Sam Ervin was a North Carolina Democratic senator best known for chairing the Senate Watergate Committee and playing a key role in the investigation that led to President Nixon’s resignation.
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B.
James Eastland
James Eastland was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Mississippi known for his staunch segregationist views and influential role within the Southern Democratic bloc.
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C.
Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois known for his influential leadership and key role in passing major civil rights legislation.
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D.
Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond was a long-serving U.S. senator from South Carolina known for his staunch segregationist views, 1948 Dixiecrat presidential run, and record-breaking Senate tenure.
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E.
Carter Glass
Carter Glass was an influential American politician and newspaper publisher who served as a U.S. senator from Virginia and played a key role in shaping early 20th-century banking and financial regulation.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a257c3d0708190b0871c4269d273e6 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25cee6f208190b996be4faa700910 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:11 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3d7e0801c8190aa1f1c5f8d5bc3cb |
completed | March 1, 2026, 6:08 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.