Triple

T4136107
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William C. Gorgas E85158 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone
The Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone was the top public health official responsible for controlling diseases like yellow fever and malaria to enable the successful construction and operation of the Panama Canal.
E414419 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: Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone | Statement: [William C. Gorgas, positionHeld, Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone
Context triple: [William C. Gorgas, positionHeld, Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone]
  • A. Commander-in-Chief, North American Station
    The Commander-in-Chief, North American Station was the senior Royal Navy officer responsible for commanding British naval forces in the North American maritime theater.
  • B. Chief of the Bureau of Navigation
    The Chief of the Bureau of Navigation was a former senior U.S. Navy administrative position responsible for personnel management and related naval affairs before being succeeded by the Chief of Naval Personnel.
  • C. General Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission
    The General Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission was the chief administrative officer of the leading civilian organization responsible for coordinating medical and sanitary support for Union soldiers during the American Civil War.
  • D. Commander, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay
    The Commander, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay is the U.S. Navy officer in charge of overseeing operations, administration, and support functions at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.
  • E. Marshal of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps
    The Marshal of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps is the highest-ranking military commander responsible for overseeing humanity’s Jaeger program and overall defense strategy against the Kaiju threat in the Pacific Rim universe.
  • 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: Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone
Triple: [William C. Gorgas, positionHeld, Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone]
Generated description
The Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone was the top public health official responsible for controlling diseases like yellow fever and malaria to enable the successful construction and operation of the Panama Canal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone
Target entity description: The Chief Sanitary Officer of the Panama Canal Zone was the top public health official responsible for controlling diseases like yellow fever and malaria to enable the successful construction and operation of the Panama Canal.
  • A. Commander-in-Chief, North American Station
    The Commander-in-Chief, North American Station was the senior Royal Navy officer responsible for commanding British naval forces in the North American maritime theater.
  • B. Chief of the Bureau of Navigation
    The Chief of the Bureau of Navigation was a former senior U.S. Navy administrative position responsible for personnel management and related naval affairs before being succeeded by the Chief of Naval Personnel.
  • C. General Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission
    The General Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission was the chief administrative officer of the leading civilian organization responsible for coordinating medical and sanitary support for Union soldiers during the American Civil War.
  • D. Commander, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay
    The Commander, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay is the U.S. Navy officer in charge of overseeing operations, administration, and support functions at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.
  • E. Marshal of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps
    The Marshal of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps is the highest-ranking military commander responsible for overseeing humanity’s Jaeger program and overall defense strategy against the Kaiju threat in the Pacific Rim universe.
  • 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_69aed935ccd881909dc61f81bcdb7a78 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0233009881909333375d597b58b6 completed March 9, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b576c75e5c8190acc4ee72cb574432 completed March 14, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b57799f22481908cfda7e620a77187 completed March 14, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b578003dd48190b9264fd834cffbdf completed March 14, 2026, 3 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:43 p.m.