Triple

T5716056
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States presidential election, 1912 E126024 entity
Predicate candidate P1223 FINISHED
Object Thomas E. Watson
Thomas E. Watson was an American politician, lawyer, and populist leader from Georgia who served in Congress and became known for his shifting stances from agrarian reform advocacy to nativist and white supremacist politics.
E546356 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: Thomas E. Watson | Statement: [United States presidential election, 1912, candidate, Thomas E. Watson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas E. Watson
Context triple: [United States presidential election, 1912, candidate, Thomas E. Watson]
  • A. Robert Toombs
    Robert Toombs was an American politician from Georgia who became a prominent leader of the Confederacy, serving as its first Secretary of State and later as a Confederate general during the Civil War.
  • B. LeRoi Moore
    LeRoi Moore was an American saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, known for his jazz-influenced playing and key role in shaping the group’s sound.
  • C. Jeptha H. Wade
    Jeptha H. Wade was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist best known as a founder of Western Union and a key civic benefactor in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • D. Eugene Talmadge
    Eugene Talmadge was a controversial mid-20th-century Georgia politician who served multiple terms as governor and was known for his staunch segregationist and populist views.
  • E. Henry B. Steagall
    Henry B. Steagall was an American Democratic congressman from Alabama best known for his key role in New Deal–era financial legislation, including coauthoring the landmark Glass–Steagall Act.
  • 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: Thomas E. Watson
Triple: [United States presidential election, 1912, candidate, Thomas E. Watson]
Generated description
Thomas E. Watson was an American politician, lawyer, and populist leader from Georgia who served in Congress and became known for his shifting stances from agrarian reform advocacy to nativist and white supremacist politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas E. Watson
Target entity description: Thomas E. Watson was an American politician, lawyer, and populist leader from Georgia who served in Congress and became known for his shifting stances from agrarian reform advocacy to nativist and white supremacist politics.
  • A. Robert Toombs
    Robert Toombs was an American politician from Georgia who became a prominent leader of the Confederacy, serving as its first Secretary of State and later as a Confederate general during the Civil War.
  • B. LeRoi Moore
    LeRoi Moore was an American saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, known for his jazz-influenced playing and key role in shaping the group’s sound.
  • C. Jeptha H. Wade
    Jeptha H. Wade was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist best known as a founder of Western Union and a key civic benefactor in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • D. Eugene Talmadge
    Eugene Talmadge was a controversial mid-20th-century Georgia politician who served multiple terms as governor and was known for his staunch segregationist and populist views.
  • E. Henry B. Steagall
    Henry B. Steagall was an American Democratic congressman from Alabama best known for his key role in New Deal–era financial legislation, including coauthoring the landmark Glass–Steagall Act.
  • 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_69c0082e3d548190950169847b43043b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c024b89b0881908675434fefe54ee8 completed March 22, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c097ebde448190806bb5bc7a2096fc completed March 23, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c09882e3188190a24199e5bcc7e76f completed March 23, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0991cdc9c81908ef92c3dbfe4276a completed March 23, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.