Triple
T7880990
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ulysses S. Grant administration |
E182977
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHolder |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William W. Belknap
William W. Belknap was a 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general who served as U.S. Secretary of War and resigned amid a major corruption scandal.
|
E705681
|
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 W. Belknap | Statement: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, officeHolder, William W. Belknap]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William W. Belknap Context triple: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, officeHolder, William W. Belknap]
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A.
Edwin M. Stanton
Edwin M. Stanton was the U.S. Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, whose dismissal by Johnson triggered the political crisis that led to Johnson’s impeachment.
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B.
Nathaniel P. Banks
Nathaniel P. Banks was a Union major general in the American Civil War and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and governor of Massachusetts.
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C.
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
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D.
Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century American naval officer who became the Confederacy’s most famous admiral, best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during the American Civil War.
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E.
William Wirt
William Wirt was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General and became the Anti-Masonic Party’s presidential candidate in the 1832 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: William W. Belknap Triple: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, officeHolder, William W. Belknap]
Generated description
William W. Belknap was a 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general who served as U.S. Secretary of War and resigned amid a major corruption scandal.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William W. Belknap Target entity description: William W. Belknap was a 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general who served as U.S. Secretary of War and resigned amid a major corruption scandal.
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A.
Edwin M. Stanton
Edwin M. Stanton was the U.S. Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, whose dismissal by Johnson triggered the political crisis that led to Johnson’s impeachment.
-
B.
Nathaniel P. Banks
Nathaniel P. Banks was a Union major general in the American Civil War and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and governor of Massachusetts.
-
C.
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
-
D.
Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century American naval officer who became the Confederacy’s most famous admiral, best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during the American Civil War.
-
E.
William Wirt
William Wirt was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General and became the Anti-Masonic Party’s presidential candidate in the 1832 election.
- 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_69ca828af6e48190a06ee7010d8f0e64 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb39bffbc481908e868ab98a38e10a |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:04 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cbdfa64c148190bf2b872bbfda1b3e |
completed | March 31, 2026, 2:52 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cc46bca04481908852425c214a4e34 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 10:12 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cc49129e188190aaebd6a1188788d9 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 10:22 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:58 p.m.