Triple
T10326382
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | David R. Francis |
E242772
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
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FINISHED |
| Object |
David Rowland Francis
David Rowland Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia during the tumultuous years of the Russian Revolution.
|
E857078
|
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: David Rowland Francis | Statement: [David R. Francis, birthName, David Rowland Francis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Rowland Francis Context triple: [David R. Francis, birthName, David Rowland Francis]
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A.
Walter Francis Brown
Walter Francis Brown was an American illustrator and artist best known for his work on 19th-century books and periodicals, including providing illustrations for Mark Twain’s travel writings.
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B.
Francis Hughes
Francis Hughes was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Northern Ireland who became widely known for dying on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
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C.
James Flack Norris
James Flack Norris was an American chemist and influential educator known for his work in organic chemistry and for helping shape early 20th-century chemical education in the United States.
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D.
Edward Fletcher-Wooten
Edward Fletcher-Wooten is a central romantic lead in the film "The Wedding Date," around whom much of the story’s relationship drama and personal growth revolves.
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E.
Sidney Lanfield
Sidney Lanfield was an American film and television director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and genre films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
- 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: David Rowland Francis Triple: [David R. Francis, birthName, David Rowland Francis]
Generated description
David Rowland Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia during the tumultuous years of the Russian Revolution.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Rowland Francis Target entity description: David Rowland Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia during the tumultuous years of the Russian Revolution.
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A.
Walter Francis Brown
Walter Francis Brown was an American illustrator and artist best known for his work on 19th-century books and periodicals, including providing illustrations for Mark Twain’s travel writings.
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B.
Francis Hughes
Francis Hughes was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Northern Ireland who became widely known for dying on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
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C.
James Flack Norris
James Flack Norris was an American chemist and influential educator known for his work in organic chemistry and for helping shape early 20th-century chemical education in the United States.
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D.
Edward Fletcher-Wooten
Edward Fletcher-Wooten is a central romantic lead in the film "The Wedding Date," around whom much of the story’s relationship drama and personal growth revolves.
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E.
Sidney Lanfield
Sidney Lanfield was an American film and television director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and genre films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
- 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_69d381af787481908bc401325c760a88 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4d7ce69b881909f27d97c90643634 |
completed | April 7, 2026, 10:09 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d7504679ec8190926d2c5016653cea |
completed | April 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d7514f48c08190823759c39fb02487 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 7:12 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d75200eecc819094e261c9fa7c75f5 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 7:15 a.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:51 a.m.