Triple

T19068832
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CIG E466736 entity
Predicate notableDirector P4744 FINISHED
Object Sidney W. Souers
Sidney W. Souers was an American naval officer and intelligence official who became the first Director of Central Intelligence, helping to lay the foundations of the post–World War II U.S. intelligence community.
E1357484 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: Sidney W. Souers | Statement: [CIG, notableDirector, Sidney W. Souers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney W. Souers
Context triple: [CIG, notableDirector, Sidney W. Souers]
  • A. William A. Wellman
    William A. Wellman was an American film director best known for his innovative work in early Hollywood cinema, including the Academy Award–winning World War I epic "Wings" and the original "A Star Is Born."
  • B. Roy S. Geiger
    Roy S. Geiger was a United States Marine Corps general and pioneering Marine aviator who became one of the Corps’ most prominent World War II commanders in the Pacific.
  • C. George P. Hunt
    George P. Hunt was an American politician who served as the first governor of the state of Arizona.
  • D. Stanford Wedeck
    Stanford Wedeck is a key character in the science fiction TV series "FlashForward," serving as the head of the FBI's Los Angeles field office and overseeing the investigation into the global blackout.
  • E. Arthur M. Hyde
    Arthur M. Hyde was an American Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and previously as governor of Missouri in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Sidney W. Souers
Triple: [CIG, notableDirector, Sidney W. Souers]
Generated description
Sidney W. Souers was an American naval officer and intelligence official who became the first Director of Central Intelligence, helping to lay the foundations of the post–World War II U.S. intelligence community.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney W. Souers
Target entity description: Sidney W. Souers was an American naval officer and intelligence official who became the first Director of Central Intelligence, helping to lay the foundations of the post–World War II U.S. intelligence community.
  • A. William A. Wellman
    William A. Wellman was an American film director best known for his innovative work in early Hollywood cinema, including the Academy Award–winning World War I epic "Wings" and the original "A Star Is Born."
  • B. Roy S. Geiger
    Roy S. Geiger was a United States Marine Corps general and pioneering Marine aviator who became one of the Corps’ most prominent World War II commanders in the Pacific.
  • C. George P. Hunt
    George P. Hunt was an American politician who served as the first governor of the state of Arizona.
  • D. Stanford Wedeck
    Stanford Wedeck is a key character in the science fiction TV series "FlashForward," serving as the head of the FBI's Los Angeles field office and overseeing the investigation into the global blackout.
  • E. Arthur M. Hyde
    Arthur M. Hyde was an American Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and previously as governor of Missouri in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d8dd04f4488190b1121cc53ef2bfd6 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5e19b94d08190865b62d98f718bb0 completed April 20, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05d35a706c8190a658d1b145db8a31 completed May 14, 2026, 1:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05d68590c88190a17da95cc59869e2 completed May 14, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05d724aa948190876a09d6cc264dee completed May 14, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:03 p.m.