Triple

T2620199
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John McShain E58988 entity
Predicate knownAs P39 FINISHED
Object The Man Who Built Washington
The Man Who Built Washington is the nickname of American building contractor John McShain, renowned for constructing and renovating many of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic federal buildings and monuments.
E284047 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: The Man Who Built Washington | Statement: [John McShain, knownAs, The Man Who Built Washington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Built Washington
Context triple: [John McShain, knownAs, The Man Who Built Washington]
  • A. The Life of George Washington
    The Life of George Washington is a multi-volume 19th-century biography by Washington Irving that chronicles the life, military career, and presidency of the first U.S. president.
  • B. Washington’s Ten Crucial Days
    Washington’s Ten Crucial Days refers to the pivotal winter campaign of the American Revolutionary War, during which George Washington led a series of surprise attacks and maneuvers that revitalized the Continental Army and turned the tide of the conflict.
  • C. City of Presidents
    City of Presidents is the nickname of Quincy, Massachusetts, a historic New England city best known as the birthplace of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
  • D. The Living Jefferson
    The Living Jefferson is a biographical work by historian James Truslow Adams that explores the life, character, and political thought of Thomas Jefferson.
  • E. Herndon’s Lincoln
    Herndon’s Lincoln is a landmark 19th-century biography of Abraham Lincoln, based on the recollections and research of Lincoln’s longtime law partner William Herndon.
  • 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: The Man Who Built Washington
Triple: [John McShain, knownAs, The Man Who Built Washington]
Generated description
The Man Who Built Washington is the nickname of American building contractor John McShain, renowned for constructing and renovating many of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic federal buildings and monuments.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Built Washington
Target entity description: The Man Who Built Washington is the nickname of American building contractor John McShain, renowned for constructing and renovating many of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic federal buildings and monuments.
  • A. The Life of George Washington
    The Life of George Washington is a multi-volume 19th-century biography by Washington Irving that chronicles the life, military career, and presidency of the first U.S. president.
  • B. Washington’s Ten Crucial Days
    Washington’s Ten Crucial Days refers to the pivotal winter campaign of the American Revolutionary War, during which George Washington led a series of surprise attacks and maneuvers that revitalized the Continental Army and turned the tide of the conflict.
  • C. City of Presidents
    City of Presidents is the nickname of Quincy, Massachusetts, a historic New England city best known as the birthplace of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
  • D. The Living Jefferson
    The Living Jefferson is a biographical work by historian James Truslow Adams that explores the life, character, and political thought of Thomas Jefferson.
  • E. Herndon’s Lincoln
    Herndon’s Lincoln is a landmark 19th-century biography of Abraham Lincoln, based on the recollections and research of Lincoln’s longtime law partner William Herndon.
  • 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_69ab4ac444dc819099614e534dd6021f completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd897acb481909a976b70304cc30e completed March 7, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af908ec0cc8190ab8feb8f237eac4b completed March 10, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af91a3b4588190acfb360dac6e5ce0 completed March 10, 2026, 3:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af920b7fcc8190b5a34c7c626a1c5d completed March 10, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.