Triple

T4876332
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States 1st Infantry Division E109212 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object William E. DePuy
William E. DePuy was a U.S. Army general and key architect of post–Vietnam War military doctrine, known for shaping the modern American approach to combined arms and operational readiness.
 E477498 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 E. DePuy | Statement: [United States 1st Infantry Division, notableCommander, William E. DePuy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William E. DePuy
Context triple: [United States 1st Infantry Division, notableCommander, William E. DePuy]
  • A. John D. Hunter
    John D. Hunter was an American scientist and software developer best known for creating the Matplotlib plotting library, which became a foundational tool in the Python scientific computing ecosystem.
  • B. William K. Sullivan
    William K. Sullivan was a distinguished 19th-century Irish scholar and academic, noted for his contributions to Celtic studies and his leadership role at Queen's College, Cork.
  • C. William H. Welch Jr.
    William H. Welch Jr. was an American physician and public health leader best known as a founder of the American Cancer Society, helping to establish organized efforts in cancer education, research, and prevention.
  • D. Laurence K. Marshall
    Laurence K. Marshall was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early leader of the defense and electronics company Raytheon.
  • E. Charles Stevens
    Charles Stevens is a person known primarily as a relative of Damien Holland.
  • 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 E. DePuy
Triple: [United States 1st Infantry Division, notableCommander, William E. DePuy]
Generated description
William E. DePuy was a U.S. Army general and key architect of post–Vietnam War military doctrine, known for shaping the modern American approach to combined arms and operational readiness.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William E. DePuy
Target entity description: William E. DePuy was a U.S. Army general and key architect of post–Vietnam War military doctrine, known for shaping the modern American approach to combined arms and operational readiness.
  • A. John D. Hunter
    John D. Hunter was an American scientist and software developer best known for creating the Matplotlib plotting library, which became a foundational tool in the Python scientific computing ecosystem.
  • B. William K. Sullivan
    William K. Sullivan was a distinguished 19th-century Irish scholar and academic, noted for his contributions to Celtic studies and his leadership role at Queen's College, Cork.
  • C. William H. Welch Jr.
    William H. Welch Jr. was an American physician and public health leader best known as a founder of the American Cancer Society, helping to establish organized efforts in cancer education, research, and prevention.
  • D. Laurence K. Marshall
    Laurence K. Marshall was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early leader of the defense and electronics company Raytheon.
  • E. Charles Stevens
    Charles Stevens is a person known primarily as a relative of Damien Holland.
  • 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_69bd440e9d64819083e82cf33b4d9570 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6dba3efc8190adcf8b30490b4984 completed March 20, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be67fc50cc819083a475a1de914670 completed March 21, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be6c25d3448190b2589959a2f221c8 completed March 21, 2026, 10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be6cf6662c8190bc1b94766c5da1e9 completed March 21, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:27 p.m.