Triple

T10015976
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butler County, Alabama E199494 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Butler (frontiersman)
William Butler was an early American frontiersman and militia officer known for his role in the Creek War and for whom Butler County, Alabama, is named.
 E835070 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 Butler (frontiersman) | Statement: [Butler County, Alabama, namedAfter, William Butler (frontiersman)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Butler (frontiersman)
Context triple: [Butler County, Alabama, namedAfter, William Butler (frontiersman)]
  • A. Henry Weber (trapper)
    Henry Weber was a 19th-century trapper and frontiersman after whom Utah’s Weber River is named.
  • B. Samuel Boone
    Samuel Boone is a notable individual who shares the Boone surname, historically associated with prominent American frontiersmen and pioneers.
  • C. Jim Bridger
    Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
  • D. Jeremiah Johnson
    Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Western film about a reclusive mountain man surviving in the Rocky Mountains, starring Robert Redford and directed by Sydney Pollack.
  • E. Alexander Henry
    Alexander Henry was a renowned 19th-century Scottish gunmaker and rifling designer whose innovations significantly improved the accuracy and performance of British military rifles.
  • 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 Butler (frontiersman)
Triple: [Butler County, Alabama, namedAfter, William Butler (frontiersman)]
Generated description
William Butler was an early American frontiersman and militia officer known for his role in the Creek War and for whom Butler County, Alabama, is named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Butler (frontiersman)
Target entity description: William Butler was an early American frontiersman and militia officer known for his role in the Creek War and for whom Butler County, Alabama, is named.
  • A. Henry Weber (trapper)
    Henry Weber was a 19th-century trapper and frontiersman after whom Utah’s Weber River is named.
  • B. Samuel Boone
    Samuel Boone is a notable individual who shares the Boone surname, historically associated with prominent American frontiersmen and pioneers.
  • C. Jim Bridger
    Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
  • D. Jeremiah Johnson
    Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Western film about a reclusive mountain man surviving in the Rocky Mountains, starring Robert Redford and directed by Sydney Pollack.
  • E. Alexander Henry
    Alexander Henry was a renowned 19th-century Scottish gunmaker and rifling designer whose innovations significantly improved the accuracy and performance of British military rifles.
  • 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_69ca8315a1a08190ab310f25620f362b completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcd4ad3348190bae03cd37c787674 completed April 2, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d26a99971081908397f06c0ce913d0 completed April 5, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d26c20f50081909a8a3b4530dc5fc0 completed April 5, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d26caee48481909d085b8df7ce14ab completed April 5, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:52 p.m.