Triple

T704441
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Cancer Society E14068 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William C. Gorgas
William C. Gorgas was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army surgeon general best known for his pioneering work in controlling mosquito-borne diseases like yellow fever and malaria, which enabled large-scale projects such as the construction of the Panama Canal.
E85158 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 C. Gorgas | Statement: [American Cancer Society, foundedBy, William C. Gorgas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Gorgas
Context triple: [American Cancer Society, foundedBy, William C. Gorgas]
  • A. William H. Foege
    William H. Foege is an American epidemiologist and former CDC director renowned for his pivotal role in developing the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox.
  • B. Laurence K. Marshall
    Laurence K. Marshall was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early leader of the defense and electronics company Raytheon.
  • C. U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry
    U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry was the American physician and public health official who, as Surgeon General in the early 1960s, led the landmark federal effort that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and helped transform tobacco control policy in the United States.
  • D. Herbert L. Porter
    Herbert L. Porter was a political operative who served as a key official in President Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and later became involved in the Watergate investigations.
  • E. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • 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 C. Gorgas
Triple: [American Cancer Society, foundedBy, William C. Gorgas]
Generated description
William C. Gorgas was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army surgeon general best known for his pioneering work in controlling mosquito-borne diseases like yellow fever and malaria, which enabled large-scale projects such as the construction of the Panama Canal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Gorgas
Target entity description: William C. Gorgas was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army surgeon general best known for his pioneering work in controlling mosquito-borne diseases like yellow fever and malaria, which enabled large-scale projects such as the construction of the Panama Canal.
  • A. William H. Foege
    William H. Foege is an American epidemiologist and former CDC director renowned for his pivotal role in developing the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox.
  • B. Laurence K. Marshall
    Laurence K. Marshall was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early leader of the defense and electronics company Raytheon.
  • C. U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry
    U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry was the American physician and public health official who, as Surgeon General in the early 1960s, led the landmark federal effort that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and helped transform tobacco control policy in the United States.
  • D. Herbert L. Porter
    Herbert L. Porter was a political operative who served as a key official in President Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and later became involved in the Watergate investigations.
  • E. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • 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_69a493494ec48190ae6751683625a9ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a533fa788190bba0f55655469c46 completed March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5dcae2ef88190a9ea1604429f048a completed March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5df14e1788190bb2f2cc87cadcb40 completed March 2, 2026, 7:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5ff5dd4808190bb8ae25fbdca0075 completed March 2, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.