Triple

T10326382
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David R. Francis E242772 entity
Predicate birthName P65 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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.