Triple
T331996
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Secretary of War |
E6644
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeldBy |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Howard Taft |
E19987
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Howard Taft | Statement: [Secretary of War, positionHeldBy, William Howard Taft]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howard Taft Context triple: [Secretary of War, positionHeldBy, William Howard Taft]
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A.
President William Howard Taft
chosen
President William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, known for his trust-busting policies, later service as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and significant administrative reforms.
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B.
Paul V. McNutt
Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
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C.
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes was an American statesman and jurist who served as governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court justice and later chief justice, and U.S. secretary of state, and was the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
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D.
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, known for his quiet demeanor, pro-business policies, and leadership during the economic prosperity of the 1920s.
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E.
Tom C. Clark
Tom C. Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967 and previously as U.S. Attorney General under President Harry S. Truman.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a2e79434908190a9d5afe415153ad9 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2eab1a7048190ac690ddc2e294914 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:16 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a4e9b4b4ec8190b2ac2599845d4c89 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 1:36 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.