Triple
T10647279
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir |
E250866
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Varina Howell Davis |
E50703
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Varina Howell Davis | Statement: [Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir, author, Varina Howell Davis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Varina Howell Davis Context triple: [Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir, author, Varina Howell Davis]
-
A.
Varina Howell Davis
chosen
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
-
B.
Anna Scott Jefferson
Anna Scott Jefferson was a member of the prominent Jefferson family of colonial Virginia, known primarily through her relationship to planter and surveyor Peter Jefferson.
-
C.
Mary Blanche Ball
Mary Blanche Ball was the mother of American actor William Holden, one of classic Hollywood’s leading men.
-
D.
Varina
Varina is a historic magisterial district and community in eastern Henrico County, Virginia, known for its early colonial settlements along the James River.
-
E.
Jenny Willis Jefferson
Jenny Willis Jefferson is a character from the television sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as the interracially married wife of Lionel Jefferson and daughter of Tom and Helen Willis.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d6aa5a4c4881908f39be6efe5981e5 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d6dfe1cd6081909df9e4dc0fda1f0b |
completed | April 8, 2026, 11:08 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d988530f288190b8150d159f723a74 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:31 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:05 p.m.