Triple

T2782298
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Archivist of the United States E61723 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object James B. Rhoads
James B. Rhoads was an American archivist and historian who served as the fifth Archivist of the United States, overseeing the National Archives during the late 1960s and 1970s.
E340208 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: James B. Rhoads | Statement: [Archivist of the United States, officeHeldBy, James B. Rhoads]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James B. Rhoads
Context triple: [Archivist of the United States, officeHeldBy, James B. Rhoads]
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. William D. Stephens
    William D. Stephens was an American Republican politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
  • C. William B. Allison
    William B. Allison was a long-serving 19th-century American Republican politician from Iowa who became a powerful U.S. senator and influential figure in national fiscal and legislative policy.
  • D. William H. Stokes
    William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
  • E. James S. Sherman
    James S. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912.
  • 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: James B. Rhoads
Triple: [Archivist of the United States, officeHeldBy, James B. Rhoads]
Generated description
James B. Rhoads was an American archivist and historian who served as the fifth Archivist of the United States, overseeing the National Archives during the late 1960s and 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James B. Rhoads
Target entity description: James B. Rhoads was an American archivist and historian who served as the fifth Archivist of the United States, overseeing the National Archives during the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. William D. Stephens
    William D. Stephens was an American Republican politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
  • C. William B. Allison
    William B. Allison was a long-serving 19th-century American Republican politician from Iowa who became a powerful U.S. senator and influential figure in national fiscal and legislative policy.
  • D. William H. Stokes
    William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
  • E. James S. Sherman
    James S. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912.
  • 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_69ab4b7e43c48190997b8fc8fb1663ab completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdd9b88888190ab021afbaf3aa3c0 completed March 7, 2026, 8:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b276bd909c8190a227ae7af6f41547 completed March 12, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b27a91eea881909cf62ec7a102e798 completed March 12, 2026, 8:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b27b51403c8190a7244cc1d96bf9a4 completed March 12, 2026, 8:37 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:57 p.m.