Triple

T18105649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hawaiian Kingdom cabinet ministers E433339 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object William James Smith
William James Smith was a political figure who served as a cabinet minister in the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
E1306379 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: William James Smith | Statement: [Hawaiian Kingdom cabinet ministers, positionHeldBy, William James Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William James Smith
Context triple: [Hawaiian Kingdom cabinet ministers, positionHeldBy, William James Smith]
  • A. William Smith Jr.
    William Smith Jr. was an American lawyer and political figure from New York who played a role in the founding era of the United States, including early state constitutional development.
  • B. William Smith Jewett
    William Smith Jewett was a 19th-century American painter known for his portraits and genre scenes.
  • C. William Owen Smith
    William Owen Smith was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii who played a key role in the islands’ political transformation and legal affairs.
  • D. George M. Dawson
    George M. Dawson was a Canadian geologist and surveyor whose exploratory work in the Yukon and western Canada led to several places, including Dawson City, being named in his honor.
  • E. Oliver Bascom
    Oliver Bascom was a 19th-century American politician who served as a New York State Canal Commissioner, helping oversee the administration and development of the state's canal system.
  • 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: William James Smith
Triple: [Hawaiian Kingdom cabinet ministers, positionHeldBy, William James Smith]
Generated description
William James Smith was a political figure who served as a cabinet minister in the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William James Smith
Target entity description: William James Smith was a political figure who served as a cabinet minister in the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
  • A. William Smith Jr.
    William Smith Jr. was an American lawyer and political figure from New York who played a role in the founding era of the United States, including early state constitutional development.
  • B. William Smith Jewett
    William Smith Jewett was a 19th-century American painter known for his portraits and genre scenes.
  • C. William Owen Smith
    William Owen Smith was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii who played a key role in the islands’ political transformation and legal affairs.
  • D. George M. Dawson
    George M. Dawson was a Canadian geologist and surveyor whose exploratory work in the Yukon and western Canada led to several places, including Dawson City, being named in his honor.
  • E. Oliver Bascom
    Oliver Bascom was a 19th-century American politician who served as a New York State Canal Commissioner, helping oversee the administration and development of the state's canal system.
  • 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_69d8b90916008190a1f110bd7ced5473 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ddb9981c8190b33697fbcaa901b3 completed April 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a037c36eea4819089619fd895c05893 completed May 12, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a037e2086708190af48c53800a729fd completed May 12, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a037eba5fb88190b2c131260f28df84 completed May 12, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:28 a.m.