Triple

T16721497
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hornell, New York E406358 entity
Predicate hasNotablePerson P304 FINISHED
Object John T. McKennan
John T. McKennan was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from New York who served as a state senator and later as a judge.
 E1317942 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: John T. McKennan | Statement: [Hornell, New York, hasNotablePerson, John T. McKennan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John T. McKennan
Context triple: [Hornell, New York, hasNotablePerson, John T. McKennan]
  • A. James T. McNamara
    James T. McNamara was a public official who served as New York State's Industrial Commissioner, overseeing labor and industry-related policies and regulations.
  • B. John C. Dugan
    John C. Dugan is an American lawyer and former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency who has held prominent regulatory and leadership roles in the financial services industry.
  • C. James B. McNamara
    James B. McNamara was an American labor union activist best known for his role in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, a pivotal event in early 20th-century labor history.
  • D. Thomas A. Muldoon
    Thomas A. Muldoon is a film editor known for his work on the action-comedy movie "Pain & Gain."
  • E. Charles E. Kearney
    Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
  • 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: John T. McKennan
Triple: [Hornell, New York, hasNotablePerson, John T. McKennan]
Generated description
John T. McKennan was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from New York who served as a state senator and later as a judge.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John T. McKennan
Target entity description: John T. McKennan was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from New York who served as a state senator and later as a judge.
  • A. James T. McNamara
    James T. McNamara was a public official who served as New York State's Industrial Commissioner, overseeing labor and industry-related policies and regulations.
  • B. John C. Dugan
    John C. Dugan is an American lawyer and former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency who has held prominent regulatory and leadership roles in the financial services industry.
  • C. James B. McNamara
    James B. McNamara was an American labor union activist best known for his role in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, a pivotal event in early 20th-century labor history.
  • D. Thomas A. Muldoon
    Thomas A. Muldoon is a film editor known for his work on the action-comedy movie "Pain & Gain."
  • E. Charles E. Kearney
    Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
  • 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_69d8838f242881908abd8bc138795886 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e38743750c81908a980372ad8f1a6a completed April 18, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03c4a715808190919b96b9e85f90d6 completed May 13, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03c5a12da88190babe36d475b54994 completed May 13, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03c63ec8c48190bad47d423ab2cfe7 completed May 13, 2026, 12:30 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:20 a.m.