Triple

T10100522
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alger County, Michigan E216186 entity
Predicate namedFor P63 FINISHED
Object Russell A. Alger
Russell A. Alger was an American Civil War general, businessman, and Republican politician who served as Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War.
E1005218 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: Russell A. Alger | Statement: [Alger County, Michigan, namedFor, Russell A. Alger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell A. Alger
Context triple: [Alger County, Michigan, namedFor, Russell A. Alger]
  • A. George A. Trenholm
    George A. Trenholm was an American merchant and politician who served as the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury during the final year of the American Civil War.
  • B. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • C. Albert E. Smith
    Albert E. Smith was a pioneering film producer and early motion picture entrepreneur who co-founded one of the first major American movie studios.
  • D. Albert S. Ruddy
    Albert S. Ruddy is a Canadian-born film and television producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on landmark films such as "The Godfather" and "Million Dollar Baby."
  • E. Asa B. Fridley
    Asa B. Fridley was an early settler and influential local figure after whom the city of Fridley, Minnesota, was named.
  • 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: Russell A. Alger
Triple: [Alger County, Michigan, namedFor, Russell A. Alger]
Generated description
Russell A. Alger was an American Civil War general, businessman, and Republican politician who served as Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell A. Alger
Target entity description: Russell A. Alger was an American Civil War general, businessman, and Republican politician who served as Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War.
  • A. George A. Trenholm
    George A. Trenholm was an American merchant and politician who served as the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury during the final year of the American Civil War.
  • B. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • C. Albert E. Smith
    Albert E. Smith was a pioneering film producer and early motion picture entrepreneur who co-founded one of the first major American movie studios.
  • D. Albert S. Ruddy
    Albert S. Ruddy is a Canadian-born film and television producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on landmark films such as "The Godfather" and "Million Dollar Baby."
  • E. Asa B. Fridley
    Asa B. Fridley was an early settler and influential local figure after whom the city of Fridley, Minnesota, was named.
  • 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_69ca83d039f08190b9d10363221c69fb completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd09878f88190bcfa2c81fb10e821 completed April 2, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68e99c2608190b923ca8a9178fea2 completed May 2, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f69061011c81908cb045925cfefdd7 completed May 3, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69138b40881909e9c74d6d922e1f3 completed May 3, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:02 p.m.