Triple

T10407584
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Virginia E245301 entity
Predicate builder P3143 FINISHED
Object William Bernard Sears
William Bernard Sears was an 18th-century American craftsman and builder known for his work on prominent colonial-era estates in Virginia.
 E861914 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: William Bernard Sears | Statement: [Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Virginia, builder, William Bernard Sears]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Bernard Sears
Context triple: [Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Virginia, builder, William Bernard Sears]
  • A. Fred F. Sears
    Fred F. Sears was an American film director and actor best known for his prolific work on low-budget genre films in the 1950s.
  • B. Richard Warren Sears
    Richard Warren Sears was an American businessman and retail pioneer who co-founded the mail-order and department store giant Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • C. William R. Sears
    William R. Sears was an influential American aerodynamicist and engineer known for his pioneering contributions to theoretical aerodynamics and aircraft design.
  • D. Forest J. Rogers
    Forest J. Rogers is a physicist known for her influential work in astrophysical opacity calculations, particularly through her leadership in the OPAL opacity project.
  • E. William Rees Sears
    William Rees Sears was an American aeronautical engineer and educator known for his influential work in aerodynamics and aircraft design.
  • 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: William Bernard Sears
Triple: [Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Virginia, builder, William Bernard Sears]
Generated description
William Bernard Sears was an 18th-century American craftsman and builder known for his work on prominent colonial-era estates in Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Bernard Sears
Target entity description: William Bernard Sears was an 18th-century American craftsman and builder known for his work on prominent colonial-era estates in Virginia.
  • A. Fred F. Sears
    Fred F. Sears was an American film director and actor best known for his prolific work on low-budget genre films in the 1950s.
  • B. Richard Warren Sears
    Richard Warren Sears was an American businessman and retail pioneer who co-founded the mail-order and department store giant Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • C. William R. Sears
    William R. Sears was an influential American aerodynamicist and engineer known for his pioneering contributions to theoretical aerodynamics and aircraft design.
  • D. Forest J. Rogers
    Forest J. Rogers is a physicist known for her influential work in astrophysical opacity calculations, particularly through her leadership in the OPAL opacity project.
  • E. William Rees Sears
    William Rees Sears was an American aeronautical engineer and educator known for his influential work in aerodynamics and aircraft design.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9f9b59881909797646fd8cd6a7e completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fbf1c428819099ca359309c4c836 completed April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d597088190bf3dca85e1ddb890 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859cc1aac8190ab232bb4e4e4fac1 completed April 10, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:09 p.m.