Triple

T4635767
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elias Kane E101525 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object William Lee D. Ewing (as U.S. senator from Illinois)
William Lee D. Ewing was a 19th-century American politician from Illinois who briefly served as a U.S. senator and also held roles such as acting governor and state legislator.
 E458870 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: William Lee D. Ewing (as U.S. senator from Illinois) | Statement: [Elias Kane, succeededBy, William Lee D. Ewing (as U.S. senator from Illinois)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Lee D. Ewing (as U.S. senator from Illinois)
Context triple: [Elias Kane, succeededBy, William Lee D. Ewing (as U.S. senator from Illinois)]
  • A. Jim Wright
    Jim Wright was an American Democratic politician from Texas who served as a powerful congressional leader and later Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s.
  • B. Jim Cox
    Jim Cox is an American screenwriter best known for his work on animated films, including Disney’s "The Rescuers Down Under."
  • C. U.S. Senator Clair Engle
    U.S. Senator Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century California lawmaker known for his influential support of major water projects and civil rights legislation.
  • D. Everett Dirksen
    Everett Dirksen was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois known for his influential leadership and key role in passing major civil rights legislation.
  • E. Robert H. Michel
    Robert H. Michel was a long-serving Republican congressman from Illinois who led the House GOP as minority leader for over a decade, known for his collegial and pragmatic legislative style.
  • 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: William Lee D. Ewing (as U.S. senator from Illinois)
Triple: [Elias Kane, succeededBy, William Lee D. Ewing (as U.S. senator from Illinois)]
Generated description
William Lee D. Ewing was a 19th-century American politician from Illinois who briefly served as a U.S. senator and also held roles such as acting governor and state legislator.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Lee D. Ewing (as U.S. senator from Illinois)
Target entity description: William Lee D. Ewing was a 19th-century American politician from Illinois who briefly served as a U.S. senator and also held roles such as acting governor and state legislator.
  • A. Jim Wright
    Jim Wright was an American Democratic politician from Texas who served as a powerful congressional leader and later Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s.
  • B. Jim Cox
    Jim Cox is an American screenwriter best known for his work on animated films, including Disney’s "The Rescuers Down Under."
  • C. U.S. Senator Clair Engle
    U.S. Senator Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century California lawmaker known for his influential support of major water projects and civil rights legislation.
  • D. Everett Dirksen
    Everett Dirksen was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois known for his influential leadership and key role in passing major civil rights legislation.
  • E. Robert H. Michel
    Robert H. Michel was a long-serving Republican congressman from Illinois who led the House GOP as minority leader for over a decade, known for his collegial and pragmatic legislative style.
  • 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_69bd43d2f1c081908cd4b7ec48ecc73d completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a60a66c8190b76f3d3a7da1df55 completed March 20, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfacba5fc8190bc86157ee5719ced completed March 21, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfed8a8b48190bcb98e2ff1886b65 completed March 21, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdff9ff3748190af5e5a6d91976abc completed March 21, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.