Triple

T4296887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John McCain E99734 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object John Sidney McCain IV
John Sidney McCain IV is the son of the late U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, known primarily as a member of the prominent McCain political family.
E440403 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: John Sidney McCain IV | Statement: [John McCain, child, John Sidney McCain IV]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sidney McCain IV
Context triple: [John McCain, child, John Sidney McCain IV]
  • A. John McCain
    John McCain was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and Vietnam War veteran who became his party’s nominee for president in 2008.
  • B. John S. McCain Sr.
    John S. McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral and World War II carrier task force commander who played a key role in Pacific theater operations.
  • C. Quayle
    Quayle is the surname of Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States who served under President George H. W. Bush.
  • D. Mark Kelley
    Mark Kelley is an American bassist best known for playing with the hip-hop band The Roots.
  • E. Scott Brown
    Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
  • 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: John Sidney McCain IV
Triple: [John McCain, child, John Sidney McCain IV]
Generated description
John Sidney McCain IV is the son of the late U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, known primarily as a member of the prominent McCain political family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sidney McCain IV
Target entity description: John Sidney McCain IV is the son of the late U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, known primarily as a member of the prominent McCain political family.
  • A. John McCain
    John McCain was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and Vietnam War veteran who became his party’s nominee for president in 2008.
  • B. John S. McCain Sr.
    John S. McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral and World War II carrier task force commander who played a key role in Pacific theater operations.
  • C. Quayle
    Quayle is the surname of Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States who served under President George H. W. Bush.
  • D. Mark Kelley
    Mark Kelley is an American bassist best known for playing with the hip-hop band The Roots.
  • E. Scott Brown
    Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
  • 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_69b3455175088190aa79c6e03b86647e completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3509aebd48190af38f2e37f07869a completed March 12, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b613464adc8190bc82f599d30d7b13 completed March 15, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b613f0d5dc8190a48e60c63ea9d717 completed March 15, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b617f70f608190bce1043c2254c9e5 completed March 15, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:08 p.m.