Triple

T4799826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Rawn Associates E106804 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William L. Rawn III
William L. Rawn III is an American architect best known as the founding principal of the Boston-based firm William Rawn Associates, recognized for its influential civic, cultural, and academic projects.
 E516561 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 L. Rawn III | Statement: [William Rawn Associates, foundedBy, William L. Rawn III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William L. Rawn III
Context triple: [William Rawn Associates, foundedBy, William L. Rawn III]
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. James W. McCord Jr.
    James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
  • C. William M. Corry Jr.
    William M. Corry Jr. was a U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for his heroism in early naval aviation.
  • D. Phillip A. Talbert
    Phillip A. Talbert is a federal prosecutor who serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
  • E. William M. Rice
    William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  • 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 L. Rawn III
Triple: [William Rawn Associates, foundedBy, William L. Rawn III]
Generated description
William L. Rawn III is an American architect best known as the founding principal of the Boston-based firm William Rawn Associates, recognized for its influential civic, cultural, and academic projects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William L. Rawn III
Target entity description: William L. Rawn III is an American architect best known as the founding principal of the Boston-based firm William Rawn Associates, recognized for its influential civic, cultural, and academic projects.
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. James W. McCord Jr.
    James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
  • C. William M. Corry Jr.
    William M. Corry Jr. was a U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for his heroism in early naval aviation.
  • D. Phillip A. Talbert
    Phillip A. Talbert is a federal prosecutor who serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
  • E. William M. Rice
    William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  • 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_69bd43f6a1e08190bf0a372bfc336ee5 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd663512d0819099064903613108d9 completed March 20, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf32ff26fc81909a8fc0f08eec0dbd completed March 22, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf33b60cac8190b62210b23ce90d06 completed March 22, 2026, 12:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf341dab94819095fe429560cdbbc5 completed March 22, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.