Triple

T4220697
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award E94331 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Norman C. Francis
Norman C. Francis is a prominent American educator and longtime president of Xavier University of Louisiana, widely recognized for his leadership in higher education and civil rights.
E447993 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: Norman C. Francis | Statement: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, Norman C. Francis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman C. Francis
Context triple: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, Norman C. Francis]
  • A. Norman Ferguson
    Norman Ferguson was an American animator and film director at Walt Disney Studios, best known for his influential work on classic Disney features during the Golden Age of animation.
  • B. Norman B. Ream
    Norman B. Ream was an American businessman and financier active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his roles on the boards of major industrial and financial corporations.
  • C. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Herbert R. O'Conor
    Herbert R. O'Conor was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Maryland and later as a U.S. senator in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Norman Black
    Norman Black is a former American professional basketball player and highly successful coach, best known for his long and decorated career in the Philippine Basketball Association.
  • 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: Norman C. Francis
Triple: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, Norman C. Francis]
Generated description
Norman C. Francis is a prominent American educator and longtime president of Xavier University of Louisiana, widely recognized for his leadership in higher education and civil rights.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman C. Francis
Target entity description: Norman C. Francis is a prominent American educator and longtime president of Xavier University of Louisiana, widely recognized for his leadership in higher education and civil rights.
  • A. Norman Ferguson
    Norman Ferguson was an American animator and film director at Walt Disney Studios, best known for his influential work on classic Disney features during the Golden Age of animation.
  • B. Norman B. Ream
    Norman B. Ream was an American businessman and financier active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his roles on the boards of major industrial and financial corporations.
  • C. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Herbert R. O'Conor
    Herbert R. O'Conor was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Maryland and later as a U.S. senator in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Norman Black
    Norman Black is a former American professional basketball player and highly successful coach, best known for his long and decorated career in the Philippine Basketball Association.
  • 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_69b3451997e08190851db4a9a588837d completed March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34e0c84548190b051d32d434cbf04 completed March 12, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd6f783430819094df0bc715f9236d completed March 20, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd71aecafc8190b0815d0308bbcaa9 completed March 20, 2026, 4:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd75f39d788190b9e394050c55f44d completed March 20, 2026, 4:29 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:04 p.m.