Triple

T6662993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McCook, Nebraska E151521 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Alexander McDowell McCook
Alexander McDowell McCook was a Union Army general during the American Civil War and a member of the prominent "Fighting McCook" family of military officers.
E608721 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: Alexander McDowell McCook | Statement: [McCook, Nebraska, namedAfter, Alexander McDowell McCook]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander McDowell McCook
Context triple: [McCook, Nebraska, namedAfter, Alexander McDowell McCook]
  • A. Reuben H. Walworth
    Reuben H. Walworth was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as the last Chancellor of New York.
  • B. John A. Rawlins
    John A. Rawlins was a Union Army general and close confidant of Ulysses S. Grant who played a key role in Civil War military administration and later served in Grant’s presidential cabinet.
  • C. Thomas Corwin
    Thomas Corwin was a prominent 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Ohio, U.S. senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, noted for his eloquence and opposition to the Mexican–American War.
  • D. Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer was an American film set decorator and art director known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood productions.
  • E. Levi Woodbury
    Levi Woodbury was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and jurist who served as a U.S. senator, governor of New Hampshire, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, and later as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • 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: Alexander McDowell McCook
Triple: [McCook, Nebraska, namedAfter, Alexander McDowell McCook]
Generated description
Alexander McDowell McCook was a Union Army general during the American Civil War and a member of the prominent "Fighting McCook" family of military officers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander McDowell McCook
Target entity description: Alexander McDowell McCook was a Union Army general during the American Civil War and a member of the prominent "Fighting McCook" family of military officers.
  • A. Reuben H. Walworth
    Reuben H. Walworth was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as the last Chancellor of New York.
  • B. John A. Rawlins
    John A. Rawlins was a Union Army general and close confidant of Ulysses S. Grant who played a key role in Civil War military administration and later served in Grant’s presidential cabinet.
  • C. Thomas Corwin
    Thomas Corwin was a prominent 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Ohio, U.S. senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, noted for his eloquence and opposition to the Mexican–American War.
  • D. Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer was an American film set decorator and art director known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood productions.
  • E. Levi Woodbury
    Levi Woodbury was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and jurist who served as a U.S. senator, governor of New Hampshire, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, and later as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • 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_69c687f5fac48190a09e4838d9c6b45d completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6b09a6fa88190ba8e454b9ad421a0 completed March 27, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6ef0c1fc081909e37296958a04572 completed March 27, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f0bd833c8190849c918d20648325 completed March 27, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f15b7d848190815be600234461ba completed March 27, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:02 p.m.