Triple

T5405968
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Willie Lanier E120893 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Lanier
William Lanier is a Pro Football Hall of Fame middle linebacker best known for starring with the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League and NFL during the late 1960s and 1970s.
E523836 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 Lanier | Statement: [Willie Lanier, fullName, William Lanier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lanier
Context triple: [Willie Lanier, fullName, William Lanier]
  • A. William Terrell
    William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
  • B. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • C. Holton D. Robinson
    Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
  • D. Maxwell R. Thurman
    Maxwell R. Thurman was a U.S. Army four-star general best known for leading the 1989 invasion of Panama and for his influential roles in military personnel and training policy.
  • E. J. Franklin Fort
    J. Franklin Fort was an American Republican politician and former Governor of New Jersey who later served in national advisory roles during the World War I era.
  • 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 Lanier
Triple: [Willie Lanier, fullName, William Lanier]
Generated description
William Lanier is a Pro Football Hall of Fame middle linebacker best known for starring with the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League and NFL during the late 1960s and 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lanier
Target entity description: William Lanier is a Pro Football Hall of Fame middle linebacker best known for starring with the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League and NFL during the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • A. William Terrell
    William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
  • B. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • C. Holton D. Robinson
    Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
  • D. Maxwell R. Thurman
    Maxwell R. Thurman was a U.S. Army four-star general best known for leading the 1989 invasion of Panama and for his influential roles in military personnel and training policy.
  • E. J. Franklin Fort
    J. Franklin Fort was an American Republican politician and former Governor of New Jersey who later served in national advisory roles during the World War I era.
  • 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_69bd46391c0c81909fa484446732b6a3 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd87924c588190beb4a1be27f8d11b completed March 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf6c4cdec48190908b52a37b82c2d1 completed March 22, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf6d329cf08190bb2927602c6bb721 completed March 22, 2026, 4:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf6d938dec81909895bcc6a4947d37 completed March 22, 2026, 4:18 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:05 p.m.