Triple

T3343949
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals E70324 entity
Predicate notableJudge P28256 FINISHED
Object Howard T. Markey
Howard T. Markey was a prominent American jurist best known as the first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and a leading figure in modern patent law.
 E538910 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: Howard T. Markey | Statement: [United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, notableJudge, Howard T. Markey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard T. Markey
Context triple: [United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, notableJudge, Howard T. Markey]
  • A. Thomas E. Ackerman
    Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
  • B. John F. Sattler
    John F. Sattler is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general known for his leadership of Marine forces during the Iraq War, including major operations in Fallujah.
  • C. Charles F. Roos
    Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
  • D. Morton M. Denn
    Morton M. Denn is a prominent chemical engineer and rheologist known for his influential research in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and polymer processing.
  • E. James P. Clements
    James P. Clements is an American academic administrator who serves as the president of Clemson University, overseeing its strategic growth and institutional development.
  • 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: Howard T. Markey
Triple: [United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, notableJudge, Howard T. Markey]
Generated description
Howard T. Markey was a prominent American jurist best known as the first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and a leading figure in modern patent law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard T. Markey
Target entity description: Howard T. Markey was a prominent American jurist best known as the first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and a leading figure in modern patent law.
  • A. Thomas E. Ackerman
    Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
  • B. John F. Sattler
    John F. Sattler is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general known for his leadership of Marine forces during the Iraq War, including major operations in Fallujah.
  • C. Charles F. Roos
    Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
  • D. Morton M. Denn
    Morton M. Denn is a prominent chemical engineer and rheologist known for his influential research in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and polymer processing.
  • E. James P. Clements
    James P. Clements is an American academic administrator who serves as the president of Clemson University, overseeing its strategic growth and institutional development.
  • 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_69ad85a405e48190b6e68de7cf9f319e completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb1f23008819084ea68b8431c50ab completed March 8, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c059b1c950819091ec6706fb06d2e6 completed March 22, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05b3696c0819081e869a229fb881f completed March 22, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05bb8a4988190b1b27f42e22d0187 completed March 22, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.