Triple
T4420231
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James M. Buchanan |
E95079
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
James McGill Buchanan Jr.
James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist and Nobel laureate best known for developing public choice theory, which applies economic principles to political decision-making.
|
E441915
|
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 McGill Buchanan Jr. | Statement: [James M. Buchanan, fullName, James McGill Buchanan Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James McGill Buchanan Jr. Context triple: [James M. Buchanan, fullName, James McGill Buchanan Jr.]
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A.
James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, whose ineffective leadership in the years just before the Civil War is widely criticized by historians.
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B.
James Knox Taylor
James Knox Taylor was an American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, overseeing the design of numerous prominent federal buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Rutherford Hayes Jr.
Rutherford Hayes Jr. was the son of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, belonging to the prominent Hayes family of 19th-century American politics.
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D.
James G. Polk
James G. Polk was an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter known for his work uncovering political corruption.
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E.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, known for overseeing the end of Reconstruction and the controversial 1876 election that marked a key moment in the Gilded Age.
- 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 McGill Buchanan Jr. Triple: [James M. Buchanan, fullName, James McGill Buchanan Jr.]
Generated description
James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist and Nobel laureate best known for developing public choice theory, which applies economic principles to political decision-making.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James McGill Buchanan Jr. Target entity description: James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist and Nobel laureate best known for developing public choice theory, which applies economic principles to political decision-making.
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A.
James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, whose ineffective leadership in the years just before the Civil War is widely criticized by historians.
-
B.
James Knox Taylor
James Knox Taylor was an American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, overseeing the design of numerous prominent federal buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Rutherford Hayes Jr.
Rutherford Hayes Jr. was the son of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, belonging to the prominent Hayes family of 19th-century American politics.
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D.
James G. Polk
James G. Polk was an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter known for his work uncovering political corruption.
-
E.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, known for overseeing the end of Reconstruction and the controversial 1876 election that marked a key moment in the Gilded Age.
- 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b3551fae7c8190abafda0d78f02d89 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 12:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b627f1a7a0819087652c3599855274 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 3:30 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b6295218e88190a48e8bfeb2febe2e |
completed | March 15, 2026, 3:36 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b62b05bcec8190a0c8d1c0e5a62c75 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 3:44 a.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.