Triple
T6124361
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | court-martial of William Calley |
E136558
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasDefenseCounsel |
P3011
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
J. Houston Gordon
J. Houston Gordon is an American attorney best known for serving as a defense lawyer for Lieutenant William Calley in the My Lai massacre court-martial during the Vietnam War era.
|
E588723
|
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: J. Houston Gordon | Statement: [court-martial of William Calley, hasDefenseCounsel, J. Houston Gordon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Houston Gordon Context triple: [court-martial of William Calley, hasDefenseCounsel, J. Houston Gordon]
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A.
Hilton Smith
Hilton Smith was an American Negro League pitcher renowned for his exceptional curveball and success with the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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C.
Ned H. Houston
Ned H. Houston was a prominent figure associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, honored for his contributions by having the Houston Field House ice arena named after him.
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D.
W. O. Gant
W. O. Gant is a passionate, larger-than-life stonecutter and the domineering, often volatile father figure in Thomas Wolfe’s autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel."
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E.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
- 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: J. Houston Gordon Triple: [court-martial of William Calley, hasDefenseCounsel, J. Houston Gordon]
Generated description
J. Houston Gordon is an American attorney best known for serving as a defense lawyer for Lieutenant William Calley in the My Lai massacre court-martial during the Vietnam War era.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Houston Gordon Target entity description: J. Houston Gordon is an American attorney best known for serving as a defense lawyer for Lieutenant William Calley in the My Lai massacre court-martial during the Vietnam War era.
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A.
Hilton Smith
Hilton Smith was an American Negro League pitcher renowned for his exceptional curveball and success with the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1930s and 1940s.
-
B.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
-
C.
Ned H. Houston
Ned H. Houston was a prominent figure associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, honored for his contributions by having the Houston Field House ice arena named after him.
-
D.
W. O. Gant
W. O. Gant is a passionate, larger-than-life stonecutter and the domineering, often volatile father figure in Thomas Wolfe’s autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel."
-
E.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
- 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_69c0089f851c81909e5e189a617dcff6 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c05c25976081909e0a40e07dff0b8a |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:16 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c62d035e9c8190bd9978987833ff3c |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:08 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c62ea850c8819097ce9fefe807c0d0 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:15 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c62f2c2d5881909e0b70853305dc05 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:18 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:14 p.m.