Triple

T625887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ulysses S. Grant E15817 entity
Predicate vicePresident P147 FINISHED
Object Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax was an American politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States and a prominent Republican leader during the Reconstruction era.
E80018 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: Schuyler Colfax | Statement: [Ulysses S. Grant, vicePresident, Schuyler Colfax]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Schuyler Colfax
Context triple: [Ulysses S. Grant, vicePresident, Schuyler Colfax]
  • A. Richard Mentor Johnson
    Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
  • B. Hannibal Hamlin
    Hannibal Hamlin was an American politician from Maine who served as the first vice president under President Abraham Lincoln during the early years of the Civil War.
  • C. Lyman Trumbull
    Lyman Trumbull was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Illinois who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the shaping of Reconstruction-era legislation.
  • D. William H. Seward
    William H. Seward was a 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and was a leading figure in the Union war effort and postwar expansion.
  • E. William G. Marcy
    William G. Marcy was an American political figure who served as secretary of California’s 1849 constitutional convention, helping to organize the foundational framework of the state’s government.
  • 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: Schuyler Colfax
Triple: [Ulysses S. Grant, vicePresident, Schuyler Colfax]
Generated description
Schuyler Colfax was an American politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States and a prominent Republican leader during the Reconstruction era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Schuyler Colfax
Target entity description: Schuyler Colfax was an American politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States and a prominent Republican leader during the Reconstruction era.
  • A. Richard Mentor Johnson
    Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
  • B. Hannibal Hamlin
    Hannibal Hamlin was an American politician from Maine who served as the first vice president under President Abraham Lincoln during the early years of the Civil War.
  • C. Lyman Trumbull
    Lyman Trumbull was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Illinois who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the shaping of Reconstruction-era legislation.
  • D. William H. Seward
    William H. Seward was a 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and was a leading figure in the Union war effort and postwar expansion.
  • E. William G. Marcy
    William G. Marcy was an American political figure who served as secretary of California’s 1849 constitutional convention, helping to organize the foundational framework of the state’s government.
  • 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_69a4935c131c8190a5378c6bf101e8cc completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49e574444819087999404f3e3ffd9 completed March 1, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a57403c0208190b3ff497aade61b29 completed March 2, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a574d565c481908ce2b259cb6e6977 completed March 2, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5757b7f2881909caf99470b08e811 completed March 2, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.