Triple

T10151001
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sumner Increase Kimball E232638 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Kimball
Kimball is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across politics, academia, and the arts.
E843088 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: Kimball | Statement: [Sumner Increase Kimball, familyName, Kimball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kimball
Context triple: [Sumner Increase Kimball, familyName, Kimball]
  • A. Kimball
    Kimball is the northern terminal station of Chicago's CTA Brown Line, serving the Albany Park neighborhood with rail connections to downtown.
  • B. Kimball
    Kimball is a small town located in McDowell County in the southern part of West Virginia, historically tied to the coal mining industry.
  • C. Kimball
    Kimball is a small city in the Nebraska Panhandle that serves as the county seat of Kimball County and a local hub for the surrounding rural region.
  • D. Kimball
    Kimball is a small rural community located within Cardston County in southern Alberta, Canada.
  • E. Ebersole
    Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
  • 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: Kimball
Triple: [Sumner Increase Kimball, familyName, Kimball]
Generated description
Kimball is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across politics, academia, and the arts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kimball
Target entity description: Kimball is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across politics, academia, and the arts.
  • A. Kimball
    Kimball is a small town located in McDowell County in the southern part of West Virginia, historically tied to the coal mining industry.
  • B. Kimball
    Kimball is the northern terminal station of Chicago's CTA Brown Line, serving the Albany Park neighborhood with rail connections to downtown.
  • C. Kimball
    Kimball is a small city in the Nebraska Panhandle that serves as the county seat of Kimball County and a local hub for the surrounding rural region.
  • D. Kimball
    Kimball is a small rural community located within Cardston County in southern Alberta, Canada.
  • E. Ebersole
    Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
  • 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_69ca84885e48819088a31b127cf44904 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdec0584a48190b65daa8370555c27 completed April 2, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2e640d1e0819094d30556ccb958b0 completed April 5, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2e750ceb08190bcb2d1b4c248b30d completed April 5, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2e7c486ec819085ad0019ab12de2a completed April 5, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:08 p.m.