Triple

T8735359
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jim Webb E207368 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object James Henry Webb Jr.
James Henry Webb Jr. is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and former U.S. Senator from Virginia who also served as Secretary of the Navy.
E753245 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: James Henry Webb Jr. | Statement: [Jim Webb, birthName, James Henry Webb Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Henry Webb Jr.
Context triple: [Jim Webb, birthName, James Henry Webb Jr.]
  • A. James E. Webb
    James E. Webb was an American government official who served as NASA’s second administrator, overseeing key early space missions during the 1960s.
  • B. James R. Webb
    James R. Webb was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the Western and thriller genres.
  • C. James Watson Webb
    James Watson Webb was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper editor, diplomat, and political figure known for his influential role in shaping public opinion before the Civil War.
  • D. George M. Low
    George M. Low was a prominent NASA engineer and administrator who played a key leadership role in the Apollo program and later served as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • E. John C. Young
    John C. Young was the American judge who presided over the High Command Trial, one of the subsequent Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
  • 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: James Henry Webb Jr.
Triple: [Jim Webb, birthName, James Henry Webb Jr.]
Generated description
James Henry Webb Jr. is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and former U.S. Senator from Virginia who also served as Secretary of the Navy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Henry Webb Jr.
Target entity description: James Henry Webb Jr. is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and former U.S. Senator from Virginia who also served as Secretary of the Navy.
  • A. James E. Webb
    James E. Webb was an American government official who served as NASA’s second administrator, overseeing key early space missions during the 1960s.
  • B. James R. Webb
    James R. Webb was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the Western and thriller genres.
  • C. James Watson Webb
    James Watson Webb was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper editor, diplomat, and political figure known for his influential role in shaping public opinion before the Civil War.
  • D. George M. Low
    George M. Low was a prominent NASA engineer and administrator who played a key leadership role in the Apollo program and later served as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • E. John C. Young
    John C. Young was the American judge who presided over the High Command Trial, one of the subsequent Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
  • 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_69ca8358e4008190898471a59b96c301 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5d2b89988190bb7671e273026046 completed March 31, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf2936f84081908cf91f1dc9a4d27f completed April 3, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf2bfc2cc48190b13c54282c15e107 completed April 3, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf2cbf60808190a006ee4fb26cde41 completed April 3, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:37 p.m.