Triple

T3398729
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flanagan E71593 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object James W. Flanagan
James W. Flanagan was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Texas during the Reconstruction era.
E445231 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: James W. Flanagan | Statement: [Flanagan, hasNotableBearer, James W. Flanagan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James W. Flanagan
Context triple: [Flanagan, hasNotableBearer, James W. Flanagan]
  • A. James L. Flanagan
    James L. Flanagan was a pioneering American electrical engineer and speech scientist known for his influential contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.
  • B. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • C. John P. McHale
    John P. McHale is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname McHale, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • D. Frank D. Gilroy
    Frank D. Gilroy was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Subject Was Roses."
  • E. Thomas J. Lahey
    Thomas J. Lahey was an individual of sufficient local significance—likely an educator or community leader—to have an elementary school named in his honor.
  • 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: James W. Flanagan
Triple: [Flanagan, hasNotableBearer, James W. Flanagan]
Generated description
James W. Flanagan was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Texas during the Reconstruction era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James W. Flanagan
Target entity description: James W. Flanagan was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Texas during the Reconstruction era.
  • A. James L. Flanagan
    James L. Flanagan was a pioneering American electrical engineer and speech scientist known for his influential contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.
  • B. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • C. John P. McHale
    John P. McHale is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname McHale, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • D. Frank D. Gilroy
    Frank D. Gilroy was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Subject Was Roses."
  • E. Thomas J. Lahey
    Thomas J. Lahey was an individual of sufficient local significance—likely an educator or community leader—to have an elementary school named in his honor.
  • 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_69ad85aac4808190a092c9cc8911f584 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb8c5816881909f91e6e9b81d29e3 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b67b99c00481908b846c610bd29993 completed March 15, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b67cd06cc48190a99fa3cfef6575ec completed March 15, 2026, 9:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b680749cdc8190bcaf4846b9f6f5d4 completed March 15, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.