Triple

T10388004
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wahunsenacawh E244814 entity
Predicate associatedWithPerson P37 FINISHED
Object John Smith
John Smith was an English soldier and explorer best known for his role in the early years of the Jamestown colony in Virginia and his encounters with the Powhatan people.
E51677 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: John Smith | Statement: [Wahunsenacawh, associatedWithPerson, John Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith
Context triple: [Wahunsenacawh, associatedWithPerson, John Smith]
  • A. John
    John is the birth name of American actor Jack Lemmon, a celebrated star of classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
  • B. John
    John is the husband of Martha Rainsborough.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of American journalist and politician John Weiss Forney, known for his influential role in 19th-century U.S. media and Democratic Party politics.
  • D. John
    John is the first name of Scottish actor and entertainer Jack Buchanan, whose full name was John David Hope Buchanan.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Foxe the Younger, an English clergyman and son of the martyrologist John Foxe.
  • 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: John Smith
Triple: [Wahunsenacawh, associatedWithPerson, John Smith]
Generated description
John Smith was an English soldier and explorer best known for his role in the early years of the Jamestown colony in Virginia and his encounters with the Powhatan people.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith
Target entity description: John Smith was an English soldier and explorer best known for his role in the early years of the Jamestown colony in Virginia and his encounters with the Powhatan people.
  • A. John Smith chosen
    John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
  • B. John Smith
    John Smith was a delegate from South Carolina who served in the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary era.
  • C. John Smith
    John Smith is an individual known primarily as the husband of Jane Smith.
  • D. John Smith
    John Smith was a 19th-century British officer credited with bringing the Ajanta Caves to modern attention after rediscovering them in 1819.
  • E. John Smith
    John Smith is a person whose formal given name is John but who is also known by the nickname Johnny Smith.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d381b5116081908d85227bab6d3c0c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9a59d688190b1da1ea0ed48fafa completed April 7, 2026, 11:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d795aa3afc8190aed1ca11556ae34f completed April 9, 2026, 12:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d7989cc318819083f325f4b223cf71 completed April 9, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d799917ab881909a947ad8059652c6 completed April 9, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:05 p.m.