Triple

T434407
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject War Production Board E9780 entity
Predicate chairperson P377 FINISHED
Object Donald M. Nelson
Donald M. Nelson was an American business executive and government official who directed U.S. industrial mobilization for World War II as head of key wartime production agencies.
 E163663 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: Donald M. Nelson | Statement: [War Production Board, chairperson, Donald M. Nelson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald M. Nelson
Context triple: [War Production Board, chairperson, Donald M. Nelson]
  • A. Donald W. Loveland
    Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
  • B. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • C. Robert K. Brigham
    Robert K. Brigham is an American historian and scholar of the Vietnam War, known for his extensive research and writings on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam conflict.
  • D. Alan M. Garber
    Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
  • E. Robert S. Boyer
    Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
  • 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: Donald M. Nelson
Triple: [War Production Board, chairperson, Donald M. Nelson]
Generated description
Donald M. Nelson was an American business executive and government official who directed U.S. industrial mobilization for World War II as head of key wartime production agencies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald M. Nelson
Target entity description: Donald M. Nelson was an American business executive and government official who directed U.S. industrial mobilization for World War II as head of key wartime production agencies.
  • A. Donald W. Loveland
    Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
  • B. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • C. Robert K. Brigham
    Robert K. Brigham is an American historian and scholar of the Vietnam War, known for his extensive research and writings on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam conflict.
  • D. Alan M. Garber
    Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
  • E. Robert S. Boyer
    Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
  • 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_69a2e801e1d48190b505d1dd336b52ac completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef0a008c8190ae0aa25e4df9c35f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad012ce1148190b1051239a44171b1 completed March 8, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad01eb335c81908775e89b8a0348cc completed March 8, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad029584308190af10520e928f890b completed March 8, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.