Triple

T9975112
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Hessin Clarke E196306 entity
Predicate succeededBy (Sixth Circuit) P91394 FINISHED
Object Xenophon Hicks
Xenophon Hicks was a United States federal judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the early 20th century.
E832360 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: Xenophon Hicks | Statement: [John Hessin Clarke, succeededBy (Sixth Circuit), Xenophon Hicks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Xenophon Hicks
Context triple: [John Hessin Clarke, succeededBy (Sixth Circuit), Xenophon Hicks]
  • A. William Hicks
    William Hicks was a British Army officer best known for leading an ill-fated Egyptian army expedition that was annihilated by Mahdist forces at the Battle of El Obeid in 1883.
  • B. Russell Hicks
    Russell Hicks was an American character actor known for his prolific appearances in Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying authority figures such as lawyers, politicians, and military officers.
  • C. Franklin Keeler
    Franklin Keeler was the founder of the Times Union newspaper.
  • D. Theodore Hickman
    Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
  • E. Charles Roane
    Charles Roane is a songwriter best known for co-writing the R&B hit "My Love Is Like...Wo" performed by Mýa.
  • 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: Xenophon Hicks
Triple: [John Hessin Clarke, succeededBy (Sixth Circuit), Xenophon Hicks]
Generated description
Xenophon Hicks was a United States federal judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Xenophon Hicks
Target entity description: Xenophon Hicks was a United States federal judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the early 20th century.
  • A. William Hicks
    William Hicks was a British Army officer best known for leading an ill-fated Egyptian army expedition that was annihilated by Mahdist forces at the Battle of El Obeid in 1883.
  • B. Russell Hicks
    Russell Hicks was an American character actor known for his prolific appearances in Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying authority figures such as lawyers, politicians, and military officers.
  • C. Franklin Keeler
    Franklin Keeler was the founder of the Times Union newspaper.
  • D. Theodore Hickman
    Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
  • E. Charles Roane
    Charles Roane is a music producer known for his work on the album "Back to Basics."
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: succeededBy (Sixth Circuit)
Context triple: [John Hessin Clarke, succeededBy (Sixth Circuit), Xenophon Hicks]
  • A. cededUnder
    Indicates that control, ownership, or rights over something are transferred from one party to another under specified terms or conditions.
  • B. succeededBy (Acting CFPB Director)
    Indicates that one individual or role directly follows another as the next Acting CFPB Director in sequence.
  • C. succeedsBy
    Indicates that one entity comes after or replaces another in a sequence, order, or position.
  • D. seventhCircuitHolding
    Indicates that a legal decision or ruling was issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
  • E. succeededByEvent
    Indicates that one event directly follows and replaces another in a temporal or sequential order.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69ca82eea2b88190a0e511d21a31f386 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb849da448190b826cb8fbf2eeb89 completed April 2, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d23ddcc01c8190bb00ac13cbbbb1fb completed April 5, 2026, 10:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d23eb2971c8190bcdbc31b4ef19816 completed April 5, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d240d7b7e881909183d7c33bd8cb5b completed April 5, 2026, 11 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69cd1d9daa808190b413a1b9a1e929e2 completed April 1, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69cd358386f48190833c862b5b8c04b2 completed April 1, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:48 p.m.