Triple

T27106699
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ralph Northam E686596 entity
Predicate succeededAsLieutenantGovernorBy P181401 FINISHED
Object Justin Fairfax
Justin Fairfax is an American Democratic politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022.
 E1758885 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Justin Fairfax | Statement: [Ralph Northam, succeededAsLieutenantGovernorBy, Justin Fairfax]
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: Justin Fairfax
Triple: [Ralph Northam, succeededAsLieutenantGovernorBy, Justin Fairfax]
Generated description
Justin Fairfax is an American Democratic politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target predicate: succeededAsLieutenantGovernorBy
Context triple: [Ralph Northam, succeededAsLieutenantGovernorBy, Justin Fairfax]
  • A. succeededByAsLieutenantGovernor chosen
    Indicates that one individual was followed in office by another individual specifically in the role of lieutenant governor.
  • B. succeededInOfficeAsGovernorBy
    Indicates that one individual’s term as governor ended and was directly followed by another individual’s term in the same office.
  • C. succeededBy (Lieutenant Governor of Virginia)
    Indicates that one individual later held the office of Lieutenant Governor of Virginia after another, directly following them in that position.
  • D. precededByAsLieutenantGovernor
    Indicates that one individual previously served as lieutenant governor immediately before another individual in a succession or office-holding sequence.
  • E. laterGovernor
    Indicates that one entity subsequently became the governor of a place or jurisdiction associated with another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ef148accd48190b6ed6e13a15f2a4f completed April 27, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f78fd5a6388190bfda4bbb2e222e5b completed May 3, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a12480c6f848190b6a3c7799b20f02d completed May 24, 2026, 12:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a124a158d9c819083f116027414b72c completed May 24, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a124ae8eb008190a504bc1eedd82b7e completed May 24, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69f78e2ac3fc819081a45c6841375c8d completed May 3, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
Created at: April 27, 2026, 8:51 a.m.