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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.