Triple

T22168879
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MacGregor E547866 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns was an American historian and political scientist best known for his influential work on leadership studies and his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
E1523826 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: James MacGregor Burns | Statement: [MacGregor, hasNotableBearer, James MacGregor Burns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James MacGregor Burns
Context triple: [MacGregor, hasNotableBearer, James MacGregor Burns]
  • A. Chuck McClelland
    Chuck McClelland is a film editor best known for his work on the 1973 blaxploitation film "Coffy."
  • B. John McClelland
    John McClelland was a Canadian publisher best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the influential publishing house McClelland and Stewart.
  • C. David Rice Holt
    David Rice Holt was a 19th-century Missouri state legislator after whom Holt County in Missouri is named.
  • D. Frank Merriam
    Frank Merriam was an American Republican politician who served as the 28th governor of California during the 1930s, overseeing the state through the Great Depression and significant labor unrest.
  • E. Joseph Cather Newsom
    Joseph Cather Newsom was a prominent late-19th-century American architect known for his elaborate Queen Anne and Victorian-style buildings in California.
  • 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: James MacGregor Burns
Triple: [MacGregor, hasNotableBearer, James MacGregor Burns]
Generated description
James MacGregor Burns was an American historian and political scientist best known for his influential work on leadership studies and his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James MacGregor Burns
Target entity description: James MacGregor Burns was an American historian and political scientist best known for his influential work on leadership studies and his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • A. Chuck McClelland
    Chuck McClelland is a film editor best known for his work on the 1973 blaxploitation film "Coffy."
  • B. John McClelland
    John McClelland was a Canadian publisher best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the influential publishing house McClelland and Stewart.
  • C. David Rice Holt
    David Rice Holt was a 19th-century Missouri state legislator after whom Holt County in Missouri is named.
  • D. Frank Merriam
    Frank Merriam was an American Republican politician who served as the 28th governor of California during the 1930s, overseeing the state through the Great Depression and significant labor unrest.
  • E. Joseph Cather Newsom
    Joseph Cather Newsom was a prominent late-19th-century American architect known for his elaborate Queen Anne and Victorian-style buildings in California.
  • 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_69e11e3c4c5c81908d336165816b12e0 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12a6721e8819081d732df2691f4a4 completed April 28, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a9ec0dc408190bd15bbbf0f5a79d9 completed May 18, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aa2a6e9fc819086e7fac0c1214dee completed May 18, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aa3b7b23c8190bf50afa02a75f326 completed May 18, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:34 p.m.