Triple

T737623
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chief Usher E14967 entity
Predicate notableOfficeHolder P5750 FINISHED
Object J. B. West
J. B. West was a longtime White House official and memoirist best known for overseeing the executive mansion’s daily operations under several U.S. presidents in the mid-20th century.
E171882 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. B. West | Statement: [Chief Usher, notableOfficeHolder, J. B. West]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. B. West
Context triple: [Chief Usher, notableOfficeHolder, J. B. West]
  • A. H. G. Balcom
    H. G. Balcom was a structural engineer best known for his role in designing and overseeing the framework of major skyscrapers in the early 20th century, including the Empire State Building.
  • B. W. J. Barre
    W. J. Barre was a 19th-century Irish architect known for his distinctive Gothic Revival designs and prominent public monuments in Belfast.
  • C. C. S. Van Winkle
    C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
  • D. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • E. A. H. Johnson
    A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
  • 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. B. West
Triple: [Chief Usher, notableOfficeHolder, J. B. West]
Generated description
J. B. West was a longtime White House official and memoirist best known for overseeing the executive mansion’s daily operations under several U.S. presidents in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. B. West
Target entity description: J. B. West was a longtime White House official and memoirist best known for overseeing the executive mansion’s daily operations under several U.S. presidents in the mid-20th century.
  • A. H. G. Balcom
    H. G. Balcom was a structural engineer best known for his role in designing and overseeing the framework of major skyscrapers in the early 20th century, including the Empire State Building.
  • B. W. J. Barre
    W. J. Barre was a 19th-century Irish architect known for his distinctive Gothic Revival designs and prominent public monuments in Belfast.
  • C. C. S. Van Winkle
    C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
  • D. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • E. A. H. Johnson
    A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
  • 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_69a4934d9930819099eed80096b0597d completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a5effc108190aea8fbe86641ba54 completed March 1, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad230463f08190b9434172264078f2 completed March 8, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad23ac782481909575f00ce3d7b382 completed March 8, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad24411d0081909ab2fab326eecd6d completed March 8, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.