Triple

T23280612
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS Cairo E588849 entity
Predicate commandingOfficer P884 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr.
Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr. was a United States Navy officer and early Civil War ironclad commander who later rose to the rank of rear admiral.
E1578098 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: Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr. | Statement: [USS Cairo, commandingOfficer, Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr.
Context triple: [USS Cairo, commandingOfficer, Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr.]
  • A. George McReynolds
    George McReynolds is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the McReynolds surname.
  • B. James McCudden
    James McCudden was a highly decorated British First World War flying ace renowned for his exceptional combat record and tactical skill in the air.
  • C. Orville Wingait
    Orville Wingait is a comedic, hapless protagonist portrayed by Eddie Bracken in mid-20th-century American film.
  • D. Orville Adalbert Derby
    Orville Adalbert Derby was an American geologist and naturalist renowned for his pioneering geological surveys and scientific work in Brazil during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Raoul Lufbery
    Raoul Lufbery was a famed French-American World War I flying ace and member of the Lafayette Escadrille, credited with numerous aerial victories and celebrated as one of the era’s pioneering combat pilots.
  • 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: Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr.
Triple: [USS Cairo, commandingOfficer, Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr.]
Generated description
Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr. was a United States Navy officer and early Civil War ironclad commander who later rose to the rank of rear admiral.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr.
Target entity description: Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr. was a United States Navy officer and early Civil War ironclad commander who later rose to the rank of rear admiral.
  • A. George McReynolds
    George McReynolds is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the McReynolds surname.
  • B. James McCudden
    James McCudden was a highly decorated British First World War flying ace renowned for his exceptional combat record and tactical skill in the air.
  • C. Orville Wingait
    Orville Wingait is a comedic, hapless protagonist portrayed by Eddie Bracken in mid-20th-century American film.
  • D. Orville Adalbert Derby
    Orville Adalbert Derby was an American geologist and naturalist renowned for his pioneering geological surveys and scientific work in Brazil during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Raoul Lufbery
    Raoul Lufbery was a famed French-American World War I flying ace and member of the Lafayette Escadrille, credited with numerous aerial victories and celebrated as one of the era’s pioneering combat pilots.
  • 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_69e25d16e2c08190a291de254703129e completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f19642b46481909fd455acd2155792 completed April 29, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c3f7f06a08190a3ac574cdcd79e3d completed May 19, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c4075bc508190ae0dc8b61c24faa0 completed May 19, 2026, 10:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c411702a48190ba2964ba221394d1 completed May 19, 2026, 10:53 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:55 p.m.