Triple

T8363095
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William J. Perry E197057 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering E423179 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering | Statement: [William J. Perry, positionHeld, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Context triple: [William J. Perry, positionHeld, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering]
  • A. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering chosen
    The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering is the U.S. Department of Defense’s chief technology officer, responsible for driving innovation, advanced research, and modernization of military technologies.
  • B. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
    The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment is a senior U.S. Department of Defense official responsible for overseeing military procurement, technology acquisition, logistics, and lifecycle sustainment of defense systems.
  • C. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition
    The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition is a senior U.S. Department of Defense official responsible for overseeing and guiding defense acquisition programs, policies, and procurement processes.
  • D. Director, Missile Defense Agency
    The Director, Missile Defense Agency is the senior U.S. Department of Defense official responsible for developing, testing, and fielding integrated missile defense systems to protect the United States, its deployed forces, and allies from ballistic missile threats.
  • E. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy
    The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy is a senior U.S. Department of Defense official responsible for shaping and overseeing policies that ensure a resilient, secure, and innovative defense industrial base.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ca82f2dbe48190aba982e75a0d94de completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb80768b208190a5f6c9e6cb6e7f30 completed March 31, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cdc77cf2ac8190a1c5b618fd64da73 completed April 2, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6 p.m.