Triple

T2988550
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States E80688 entity
Predicate notableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object John F. Shelley
John F. Shelley was an American labor leader and Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Congressman and later as the 35th mayor of San Francisco in the 1960s.
 E731572 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: John F. Shelley | Statement: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States, notableBurial, John F. Shelley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John F. Shelley
Context triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States, notableBurial, John F. Shelley]
  • A. Richard T. Wetherald
    Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
  • B. Hugh J. Jewett
    Hugh J. Jewett was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Erie Railroad.
  • C. Allen M. Davey
    Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
  • D. James A. Abrahamson
    James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • 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: John F. Shelley
Triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States, notableBurial, John F. Shelley]
Generated description
John F. Shelley was an American labor leader and Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Congressman and later as the 35th mayor of San Francisco in the 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John F. Shelley
Target entity description: John F. Shelley was an American labor leader and Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Congressman and later as the 35th mayor of San Francisco in the 1960s.
  • A. Richard T. Wetherald
    Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
  • B. Hugh J. Jewett
    Hugh J. Jewett was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Erie Railroad.
  • C. Allen M. Davey
    Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
  • D. James A. Abrahamson
    James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • 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_69ad8b16c3488190b47b6aa7a59a335b completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad99c9cdd081908fa8094a3ac1f8d3 completed March 8, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce019fb0cc81908a24b0e39110325d completed April 2, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce064211e48190b558d4355be659ba completed April 2, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce07a390048190ac26a7e3d3d561e0 completed April 2, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:59 p.m.