Triple

T4296888
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John McCain E99734 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object James McCain
James McCain is one of the children of the late U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
 E442791 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: James McCain | Statement: [John McCain, child, James McCain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James McCain
Context triple: [John McCain, child, James McCain]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Franklin McCain
    Franklin McCain was a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Vince McCain
    Vince McCain is a ruthless, profit-obsessed executive and the main antagonist in the British-American comedy film "Fierce Creatures."
  • E. Quayle
    Quayle is the surname of Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States who served under President George H. W. Bush.
  • 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: James McCain
Triple: [John McCain, child, James McCain]
Generated description
James McCain is one of the children of the late U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James McCain
Target entity description: James McCain is one of the children of the late U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Franklin McCain
    Franklin McCain was a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Vince McCain
    Vince McCain is a ruthless, profit-obsessed executive and the main antagonist in the British-American comedy film "Fierce Creatures."
  • E. Quayle
    Quayle is the surname of Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States who served under President George H. W. Bush.
  • 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_69b627cfba848190a56a25c6d7d750c7 completed March 15, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b628fe10908190978dd0361628f54f completed March 15, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b629ab52c881909f7fbef6f77b5bc4 completed March 15, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:08 p.m.