Triple

T4220705
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award E94331 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Michael S. McPherson
Michael S. McPherson is an American economist and higher education leader known for his scholarship on college access and affordability and for serving in prominent academic and philanthropic roles.
E427370 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: Michael S. McPherson | Statement: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, Michael S. McPherson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael S. McPherson
Context triple: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, Michael S. McPherson]
  • A. Robert B. Anderson
    Robert B. Anderson was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • B. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • C. Samuel J. Crawford
    Samuel J. Crawford was the third governor of Kansas, a Civil War officer, and a prominent 19th-century political figure in the state.
  • D. William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds was an American film editor renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
  • E. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • 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: Michael S. McPherson
Triple: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, Michael S. McPherson]
Generated description
Michael S. McPherson is an American economist and higher education leader known for his scholarship on college access and affordability and for serving in prominent academic and philanthropic roles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael S. McPherson
Target entity description: Michael S. McPherson is an American economist and higher education leader known for his scholarship on college access and affordability and for serving in prominent academic and philanthropic roles.
  • A. Robert B. Anderson
    Robert B. Anderson was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • B. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • C. Samuel J. Crawford
    Samuel J. Crawford was the third governor of Kansas, a Civil War officer, and a prominent 19th-century political figure in the state.
  • D. William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds was an American film editor renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
  • E. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • 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_69b5b77294208190a53d6950dbf36351 completed March 14, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5b84b58a081909618d0c108317f92 completed March 14, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5b8be90c88190a4852c625e326f6b completed March 14, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:04 p.m.