Triple

T4117449
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008 E90326 entity
Predicate candidate P1223 FINISHED
Object Sam Brownback
Sam Brownback is an American Republican politician and former governor of Kansas who also served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
 E415437 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: Sam Brownback | Statement: [Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008, candidate, Sam Brownback]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sam Brownback
Context triple: [Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008, candidate, Sam Brownback]
  • A. Kay Kirkpatrick Inhofe
    Kay Kirkpatrick Inhofe is the wife of the late U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe and a member of the prominent Oklahoma political family.
  • B. Ben Sasse
    Ben Sasse is an American academic and politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska before becoming president of the University of Florida.
  • C. Mike Johanns (as Governor of Nebraska)
    Mike Johanns is an American Republican politician who served as the 38th Governor of Nebraska before later becoming U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and a United States Senator.
  • D. Pete Ricketts
    Pete Ricketts is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the governor of Nebraska and later as a U.S. senator from the state.
  • E. Jim Inhofe
    Jim Inhofe is a conservative Republican politician from Oklahoma who served for decades in the U.S. Senate, where he was known for his leadership on defense issues and his skepticism of climate change.
  • 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: Sam Brownback
Triple: [Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008, candidate, Sam Brownback]
Generated description
Sam Brownback is an American Republican politician and former governor of Kansas who also served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sam Brownback
Target entity description: Sam Brownback is an American Republican politician and former governor of Kansas who also served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
  • A. Kay Kirkpatrick Inhofe
    Kay Kirkpatrick Inhofe is the wife of the late U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe and a member of the prominent Oklahoma political family.
  • B. Ben Sasse
    Ben Sasse is an American academic and politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska before becoming president of the University of Florida.
  • C. Mike Johanns (as Governor of Nebraska)
    Mike Johanns is an American Republican politician who served as the 38th Governor of Nebraska before later becoming U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and a United States Senator.
  • D. Pete Ricketts
    Pete Ricketts is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the governor of Nebraska and later as a U.S. senator from the state.
  • E. Jim Inhofe
    Jim Inhofe is a conservative Republican politician from Oklahoma who served for decades in the U.S. Senate, where he was known for his leadership on defense issues and his skepticism of climate change.
  • 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_69aed95c080881908125e30c5dcdc6f8 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af01f347f8819080dd250398474d7e completed March 9, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b576abe02081908a1b0322758089bd completed March 14, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b577180e2881908e3bf4bfce7c9edd completed March 14, 2026, 2:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5778dcdc08190aee087f6d54992dc completed March 14, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:41 p.m.