Triple

T7092818
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Washington Butler E165239 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John Washington Butler, an American politician best known for sponsoring Tennessee's 1925 Butler Act that prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools.
E642158 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: John | Statement: [John Washington Butler, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Washington Butler, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Paul Stevens, a long-serving associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  • B. John
    John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for his executive role at General Motors and for financing and promoting the construction of the Empire State Building.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John A. Roebling II, an American civil engineer and philanthropist from the prominent Roebling family associated with major bridge construction.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Borlase Warren, a prominent British naval officer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Francis Dodge, an American automobile pioneer and co-founder of the Dodge Brothers Company.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John Washington Butler, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John Washington Butler, an American politician best known for sponsoring Tennessee's 1925 Butler Act that prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John Washington Butler, an American politician best known for sponsoring Tennessee's 1925 Butler Act that prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John T. Scopes, the American teacher famously tried in 1925 for teaching evolution in the landmark "Scopes Monkey Trial."
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Sherman Cooper, a prominent American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Kentucky.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Y. Brown Jr., an American businessman and politician who served as governor of Kentucky.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John M. Harlan II, an influential 20th-century Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court known for his strong advocacy of judicial restraint and civil liberties.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Marshall Harlan, a prominent U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential dissents in civil rights cases.
  • 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_69c6887e8c10819091cee237560d32da completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e532513c8190968eea8a0d3235a0 completed March 27, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c79c8a1d788190b9ad25d6e6c460f7 completed March 28, 2026, 9:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c79d7f00ac8190aa288fe93a3e577a completed March 28, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c79e30940c8190a1bcebc840a4990f completed March 28, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:41 p.m.