Triple

T754668
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 2008 United States presidential election E15526 entity
Predicate losingCandidate P354 FINISHED
Object John McCain
John McCain was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and Vietnam War veteran who became his party’s nominee for president in 2008.
E99734 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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 McCain | Statement: [2008 United States presidential election, losingCandidate, John McCain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McCain
Context triple: [2008 United States presidential election, losingCandidate, John McCain]
  • A. Mitt Romney
    Mitt Romney is an American politician and businessman who served as governor of Massachusetts and was the Republican Party’s nominee for president in the 2012 election.
  • B. John Warner
    John Warner was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy known for his influential role in national defense and bipartisan politics.
  • C. Scott Brown
    Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
  • D. Bob Dole
    Bob Dole was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Kansas and 1996 presidential nominee known for his influential legislative work and party leadership.
  • E. Joe Lieberman
    Joe Lieberman was a longtime U.S. senator from Connecticut known for his centrist politics and role as Al Gore’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2000 election.
  • 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 McCain
Triple: [2008 United States presidential election, losingCandidate, John McCain]
Generated description
John McCain was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and Vietnam War veteran who became his party’s nominee for president in 2008.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McCain
Target entity description: John McCain was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and Vietnam War veteran who became his party’s nominee for president in 2008.
  • A. Mitt Romney
    Mitt Romney is an American politician and businessman who served as governor of Massachusetts and was the Republican Party’s nominee for president in the 2012 election.
  • B. John Warner
    John Warner was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy known for his influential role in national defense and bipartisan politics.
  • C. Scott Brown
    Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
  • D. Bob Dole
    Bob Dole was a long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Kansas and 1996 presidential nominee known for his influential legislative work and party leadership.
  • E. Joe Lieberman
    Joe Lieberman was a longtime U.S. senator from Connecticut known for his centrist politics and role as Al Gore’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2000 election.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: losingCandidate
Context triple: [2008 United States presidential election, losingCandidate, John McCain]
  • A. defeatedCandidate chosen
    Indicates that one candidate has won an election or contest against another candidate, causing the other to lose.
  • B. popularVoteLoser
    Indicates that the subject became the winner of an election despite receiving fewer popular votes than at least one opponent.
  • C. electedCandidate
    Indicates that a particular person has been chosen as the winner in an election for a given position or office.
  • D. featuredCandidate
    Indicates that a particular candidate is highlighted or given special prominence relative to others.
  • E. losingState
    Indicates that a particular game or competitive situation is in a condition where the player or side in question is currently losing or destined to lose under optimal play.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a493599a0081908da65f3407af1ef2 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a66820548190b373deb117187c2c completed March 1, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a79282d4d481908a2cb0f95a93220e completed March 4, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7946b93088190adca99b9db74ca68 completed March 4, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a794ea4fd0819099032d14f90dbca5 completed March 4, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a4a501c4cc81908de6d63e3d4f60d7 completed March 1, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.