Triple

T18918519
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Wilson Corcoran E462783 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Thomas Corcoran
Thomas Corcoran was an early 19th-century Washington, D.C. businessman and civic leader, known as the father of prominent banker and philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran.
E1354679 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: Thomas Corcoran | Statement: [William Wilson Corcoran, father, Thomas Corcoran]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Corcoran
Context triple: [William Wilson Corcoran, father, Thomas Corcoran]
  • A. Brian Corcoran
    Brian Corcoran is a member of the Corcoran family, known in part through his relationship to American child actor Kevin Corcoran.
  • B. Arthur O'Connell
    Arthur O'Connell was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and stage productions, often portraying kindly or world-weary older men.
  • C. William O’Leary
    William O’Leary is an American actor best known for his role as Marty Taylor on the television sitcom "Home Improvement."
  • D. Oscar Traynor
    Oscar Traynor was an Irish revolutionary and military leader who played a prominent role in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War before later serving as a long-time Fianna Fáil politician and government minister.
  • E. Michael Corcoran
    Michael Corcoran was an Irish-born American Union Army general and prominent Irish nationalist leader who helped organize and command Irish immigrant soldiers during the U.S. 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: Thomas Corcoran
Triple: [William Wilson Corcoran, father, Thomas Corcoran]
Generated description
Thomas Corcoran was an early 19th-century Washington, D.C. businessman and civic leader, known as the father of prominent banker and philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Corcoran
Target entity description: Thomas Corcoran was an early 19th-century Washington, D.C. businessman and civic leader, known as the father of prominent banker and philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran.
  • A. Brian Corcoran
    Brian Corcoran is a member of the Corcoran family, known in part through his relationship to American child actor Kevin Corcoran.
  • B. Arthur O'Connell
    Arthur O'Connell was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and stage productions, often portraying kindly or world-weary older men.
  • C. William O’Leary
    William O’Leary is an American actor best known for his role as Marty Taylor on the television sitcom "Home Improvement."
  • D. Oscar Traynor
    Oscar Traynor was an Irish revolutionary and military leader who played a prominent role in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War before later serving as a long-time Fianna Fáil politician and government minister.
  • E. Michael Corcoran
    Michael Corcoran was an Irish-born American Union Army general and prominent Irish nationalist leader who helped organize and command Irish immigrant soldiers during the U.S. 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_69d8dcfdbbb881909964fa5a75bd0b48 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c629527481909dad169f07df0da4 completed April 20, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05be3eeb088190a84667126492b225 completed May 14, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05bfef251081909e1f36d28cf6a89a completed May 14, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05c0ae6b048190ac1b8e2e15141bc7 completed May 14, 2026, 12:31 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:59 a.m.