Triple

T3843965
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Franklin McCain E93521 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Wendell McCain
Wendell McCain is known as a son of civil rights activist Franklin McCain, one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement.
 E401763 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: Wendell McCain | Statement: [Franklin McCain, hasChild, Wendell McCain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wendell McCain
Context triple: [Franklin McCain, hasChild, Wendell McCain]
  • A. Don Roberts
    Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
  • B. Franklin McCain
    Franklin McCain was a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
  • C. James K. Boyce
    James K. Boyce is an American economist known for his work on environmental economics, inequality, and the political economy of development.
  • D. Thomas J. Bliley Jr.
    Thomas J. Bliley Jr. is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Representative from Virginia who chaired the House Commerce Committee and played a key role in major financial deregulation legislation.
  • E. Hurd Hatfield
    Hurd Hatfield was an American actor best known for his haunting title role in the 1945 film adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
  • 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: Wendell McCain
Triple: [Franklin McCain, hasChild, Wendell McCain]
Generated description
Wendell McCain is known as a son of civil rights activist Franklin McCain, one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wendell McCain
Target entity description: Wendell McCain is known as a son of civil rights activist Franklin McCain, one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement.
  • A. Don Roberts
    Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
  • B. Franklin McCain
    Franklin McCain was a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
  • C. James K. Boyce
    James K. Boyce is an American economist known for his work on environmental economics, inequality, and the political economy of development.
  • D. Thomas J. Bliley Jr.
    Thomas J. Bliley Jr. is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Representative from Virginia who chaired the House Commerce Committee and played a key role in major financial deregulation legislation.
  • E. Hurd Hatfield
    Hurd Hatfield was an American actor best known for his haunting title role in the 1945 film adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
  • 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_69aed96ce578819084ab16e3439976c9 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeebb4fd308190a636ba9dbbe57ed6 completed March 9, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5337284608190af9c288033d5ce23 completed March 14, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5345b408c8190a68c530edd1efb1f completed March 14, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5351fe4d081909c606f2ced0efbdc completed March 14, 2026, 10:14 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:18 p.m.