Triple

T13094826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herbert Vaughan E310555 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Colonel John Francis Vaughan
Colonel John Francis Vaughan was a 19th-century British army officer and member of a prominent Catholic family, best known as the father of Cardinal Herbert Vaughan.
E1019567 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: Colonel John Francis Vaughan | Statement: [Herbert Vaughan, father, Colonel John Francis Vaughan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel John Francis Vaughan
Context triple: [Herbert Vaughan, father, Colonel John Francis Vaughan]
  • A. Capt. Erskine Cooney
    Capt. Erskine Cooney is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed as an indecisive and often cowardly company commander in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!".
  • B. Colonel Francis White
    Colonel Francis White was a prominent historical figure after whom the town of Whitehaven was named, likely due to his local influence or landownership.
  • C. Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery
    Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery was a Confederate officer best known for leading Southern forces during the Civil War’s Battle of Marianna in Florida.
  • D. Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
    Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter was a distinguished U.S. Army Air Corps officer and World War II fighter ace honored for his leadership and aerial combat achievements.
  • E. Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
    Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
  • 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: Colonel John Francis Vaughan
Triple: [Herbert Vaughan, father, Colonel John Francis Vaughan]
Generated description
Colonel John Francis Vaughan was a 19th-century British army officer and member of a prominent Catholic family, best known as the father of Cardinal Herbert Vaughan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel John Francis Vaughan
Target entity description: Colonel John Francis Vaughan was a 19th-century British army officer and member of a prominent Catholic family, best known as the father of Cardinal Herbert Vaughan.
  • A. Capt. Erskine Cooney
    Capt. Erskine Cooney is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed as an indecisive and often cowardly company commander in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!".
  • B. Colonel Francis White
    Colonel Francis White was a prominent historical figure after whom the town of Whitehaven was named, likely due to his local influence or landownership.
  • C. Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery
    Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery was a Confederate officer best known for leading Southern forces during the Civil War’s Battle of Marianna in Florida.
  • D. Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
    Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter was a distinguished U.S. Army Air Corps officer and World War II fighter ace honored for his leadership and aerial combat achievements.
  • E. Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
    Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
  • 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_69d806a733548190989cfd4ce981ca33 completed April 9, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9813cd1b881909871a318fdd60672 completed April 10, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6d617f1908190a2fa147bedede54f completed May 3, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6d6e326408190b7906c7ea8e3ef85 completed May 3, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6d873b978819097962c82e8ffdac8 completed May 3, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:03 p.m.