Triple

T2881154
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Kansas City Star E59398 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object William Allen White
William Allen White was a prominent American newspaper editor, author, and political commentator known as the influential editor of the Emporia Gazette and a leading voice of Midwestern progressivism in the early 20th century.
E307932 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: William Allen White | Statement: [The Kansas City Star, employed, William Allen White]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Allen White
Context triple: [The Kansas City Star, employed, William Allen White]
  • A. George William Curtis
    George William Curtis was a 19th-century American writer, editor, and political reformer known for his influential essays and commentary on civil service reform and liberal politics.
  • B. William Maynard Hutchins
    William Maynard Hutchins is an American translator and scholar best known for translating major works of modern Arabic literature, including Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy.
  • C. Harold Hutchins
    Harold Hutchins is a mischievous, imaginative elementary school student and amateur comic-book artist who co-creates the superhero Captain Underpants in the "Captain Underpants" series.
  • D. Joseph F. Guffey
    Joseph F. Guffey was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and New Deal supporter known for his leadership on coal industry regulation and labor issues.
  • E. John Mead Howells
    John Mead Howells was an American architect best known for his influential skyscraper designs in the early 20th century and his role in shaping Chicago’s and New York’s urban skylines.
  • 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: William Allen White
Triple: [The Kansas City Star, employed, William Allen White]
Generated description
William Allen White was a prominent American newspaper editor, author, and political commentator known as the influential editor of the Emporia Gazette and a leading voice of Midwestern progressivism in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Allen White
Target entity description: William Allen White was a prominent American newspaper editor, author, and political commentator known as the influential editor of the Emporia Gazette and a leading voice of Midwestern progressivism in the early 20th century.
  • A. George William Curtis
    George William Curtis was a 19th-century American writer, editor, and political reformer known for his influential essays and commentary on civil service reform and liberal politics.
  • B. William Maynard Hutchins
    William Maynard Hutchins is an American translator and scholar best known for translating major works of modern Arabic literature, including Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy.
  • C. Harold Hutchins
    Harold Hutchins is a mischievous, imaginative elementary school student and amateur comic-book artist who co-creates the superhero Captain Underpants in the "Captain Underpants" series.
  • D. Joseph F. Guffey
    Joseph F. Guffey was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and New Deal supporter known for his leadership on coal industry regulation and labor issues.
  • E. John Mead Howells
    John Mead Howells was an American architect best known for his influential skyscraper designs in the early 20th century and his role in shaping Chicago’s and New York’s urban skylines.
  • 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_69ab4ac739188190a112f42a5a69c951 completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe0296be081908070bd48fe4fc926 completed March 7, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b031633efc819088c2ea29eafaff0f completed March 10, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b033894ca881908691b88e6108257c completed March 10, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b03c3af7b48190b66bb32df59196e3 completed March 10, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:03 p.m.