Triple

T5149463
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William F. Knowland E116156 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object Clair Engle
Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
E499547 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: Clair Engle | Statement: [William F. Knowland, succeededBy, Clair Engle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clair Engle
Context triple: [William F. Knowland, succeededBy, Clair Engle]
  • A. Dorothy Butler Gilliam
    Dorothy Butler Gilliam is a pioneering American journalist and author who became the first African American female reporter at The Washington Post and a prominent advocate for diversity in the media.
  • B. Rutha Mae Harris
    Rutha Mae Harris is an American civil rights activist and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and galvanize the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
  • C. Aurelia S. Browder
    Aurelia S. Browder was a civil rights activist whose arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, led to her serving as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that helped end bus segregation.
  • D. Beverly Franklin
    Beverly Franklin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Franklin.
  • E. Florence Eldridge
    Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
  • 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: Clair Engle
Triple: [William F. Knowland, succeededBy, Clair Engle]
Generated description
Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clair Engle
Target entity description: Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • A. Dorothy Butler Gilliam
    Dorothy Butler Gilliam is a pioneering American journalist and author who became the first African American female reporter at The Washington Post and a prominent advocate for diversity in the media.
  • B. Rutha Mae Harris
    Rutha Mae Harris is an American civil rights activist and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and galvanize the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
  • C. Aurelia S. Browder
    Aurelia S. Browder was a civil rights activist whose arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, led to her serving as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that helped end bus segregation.
  • D. Beverly Franklin
    Beverly Franklin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Franklin.
  • E. Florence Eldridge
    Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
  • 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_69bd4446c0e08190a7c29dc74976bf03 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd78b2a1748190b896ba0f53927118 completed March 20, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bed9235de88190b3698a90af91c33d completed March 21, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bedaaca3d0819089ef56835ba254b0 completed March 21, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bedb1ae560819084de6275b6ebaa23 completed March 21, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:43 p.m.