Triple

T425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Public Welfare Medal E8 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Robert McNamara
Robert McNamara was a prominent American business executive and U.S. Secretary of Defense best known for his central role in shaping U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War and later leadership of the World Bank.
E99 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: Robert McNamara | Statement: [Public Welfare Medal, notableRecipient, Robert McNamara]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert McNamara
Context triple: [Public Welfare Medal, notableRecipient, Robert McNamara]
  • A. Vannevar Bush
    American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
  • B. J. C. R. Licklider
    J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
  • C. President Harry S. Truman
    President Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, known for making the decision to use atomic bombs in World War II, implementing the Marshall Plan, and shaping early Cold War policy.
  • D. Herbert Hoover
    Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, known for his humanitarian relief efforts during and after World War I and for leading the country at the onset of the Great Depression.
  • E. Douglas Engelbart
    Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.
  • 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: Robert McNamara
Triple: [Public Welfare Medal, notableRecipient, Robert McNamara]
Generated description
Robert McNamara was a prominent American business executive and U.S. Secretary of Defense best known for his central role in shaping U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War and later leadership of the World Bank.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert McNamara
Target entity description: Robert McNamara was a prominent American business executive and U.S. Secretary of Defense best known for his central role in shaping U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War and later leadership of the World Bank.
  • A. Vannevar Bush
    American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
  • B. J. C. R. Licklider
    J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
  • C. President Harry S. Truman
    President Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, known for making the decision to use atomic bombs in World War II, implementing the Marshall Plan, and shaping early Cold War policy.
  • D. Herbert Hoover
    Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, known for his humanitarian relief efforts during and after World War I and for leading the country at the onset of the Great Depression.
  • E. Douglas Engelbart
    Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.
  • 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_69a222a954e48190b48f126a67485661 completed Feb. 27, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a22919c9988190aa35ab58627ff950 completed Feb. 27, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a23296d6a881908dbf9acacf9fb94f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a23385a92c81909dc72e5193d32d36 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a234b8f2648190881fdeb4a864617f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 27, 2026, 11:04 p.m.