Triple

T18053011
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John G. Nicolay E431965 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John G. Nicolay, who served as President Abraham Lincoln’s private secretary and later co-authored a seminal biography of Lincoln.
E1303023 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 | Statement: [John G. Nicolay, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John G. Nicolay, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • C. John
    John Ross is a personal name shared by various notable individuals across history, including leaders, politicians, and public figures.
  • D. John
    John is the first name of Jack Graney, a Canadian Major League Baseball player and later a pioneering baseball broadcaster.
  • E. John
    John is the given first name of the American Old West outlaw and gunfighter Johnny Ringo.
  • 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
Triple: [John G. Nicolay, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John G. Nicolay, who served as President Abraham Lincoln’s private secretary and later co-authored a seminal biography of Lincoln.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John G. Nicolay, who served as President Abraham Lincoln’s private secretary and later co-authored a seminal biography of Lincoln.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Slidell, a 19th-century American politician and diplomat involved in key events leading up to the U.S. Civil War.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John F. Lehman, a former U.S. Secretary of the Navy and influential defense policy figure.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Nance Garner, who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Adams, the second president of the United States and a prominent Founding Father.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Foster Dulles, a prominent 20th-century American diplomat and U.S. Secretary of State during the Eisenhower administration.
  • 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_69d8b906482481908183315b9ecf9994 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4c0ff580c8190bc3ca04025476255 completed April 19, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0349a493048190945f3ba2215b3f20 completed May 12, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a034c8ab80c81908d113e0c878b3b91 completed May 12, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a034d183ea48190ac939503ad63b39f completed May 12, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:26 a.m.