Triple

T3202432
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject House Un-American Activities Committee E67080 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object John Rankin
John Rankin was a Mississippi Democratic congressman known for his staunch segregationist views and fervent anti-communism during the mid-20th century.
 E340180 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 Rankin | Statement: [House Un-American Activities Committee, notableMember, John Rankin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Rankin
Context triple: [House Un-American Activities Committee, notableMember, John Rankin]
  • A. John Rankin
    John Rankin is a British diplomat who previously served as Governor of Bermuda before being succeeded by Rena Lalgie.
  • B. George C. Rankin
    George C. Rankin was a member of the Hunter Commission, a British-era committee in India focused on educational reforms.
  • C. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. William Roberts
    William Roberts was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
  • E. William Roberts
    William Roberts was a British painter associated with the Vorticist movement, known for his modernist depictions of urban life and wartime scenes.
  • 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 Rankin
Triple: [House Un-American Activities Committee, notableMember, John Rankin]
Generated description
John Rankin was a Mississippi Democratic congressman known for his staunch segregationist views and fervent anti-communism during the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Rankin
Target entity description: John Rankin was a Mississippi Democratic congressman known for his staunch segregationist views and fervent anti-communism during the mid-20th century.
  • A. John Rankin
    John Rankin is a British diplomat who previously served as Governor of Bermuda before being succeeded by Rena Lalgie.
  • B. George C. Rankin
    George C. Rankin was a member of the Hunter Commission, a British-era committee in India focused on educational reforms.
  • C. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. William Roberts
    William Roberts was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
  • E. William Roberts
    William Roberts was a British painter associated with the Vorticist movement, known for his modernist depictions of urban life and wartime scenes.
  • 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_69ad8589bd988190afa7ed2bdffb7b33 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada9b046c8819087c0a61c4f9adeb7 completed March 8, 2026, 4:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2770201888190af6cbeded6d1ae56 completed March 12, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b27b0289a08190ab3b9bd1d43b91ea completed March 12, 2026, 8:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b27badbe7881909e6215965e7c6907 completed March 12, 2026, 8:39 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.