Triple

T1132528
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Davidson College E23063 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Brigadier General William Lee Davidson
Brigadier General William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in action in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson College.
 E135450 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: Brigadier General William Lee Davidson | Statement: [Davidson College, namedAfter, Brigadier General William Lee Davidson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brigadier General William Lee Davidson
Context triple: [Davidson College, namedAfter, Brigadier General William Lee Davidson]
  • A. Brigadier General Harry T. Hays
    Brigadier General Harry T. Hays was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the famed Louisiana Tigers brigade in several major battles, including Gettysburg.
  • B. Major-General George F. Hopkinson
    Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
  • C. Major General William H. Tunner
    Major General William H. Tunner was a U.S. Air Force officer renowned as a pioneering airlift commander, best known for orchestrating large-scale air supply operations such as the Berlin Airlift.
  • D. General William L. Shelton
    General William L. Shelton is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who led major space operations and modernization efforts, including serving as commander of Air Force Space Command.
  • E. Colonel Isaac E. Avery
    Colonel Isaac E. Avery was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War, best remembered for his fatal wounding while leading a charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • 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: Brigadier General William Lee Davidson
Triple: [Davidson College, namedAfter, Brigadier General William Lee Davidson]
Generated description
Brigadier General William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in action in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson College.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brigadier General William Lee Davidson
Target entity description: Brigadier General William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in action in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson College.
  • A. Brigadier General Harry T. Hays
    Brigadier General Harry T. Hays was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the famed Louisiana Tigers brigade in several major battles, including Gettysburg.
  • B. Major-General George F. Hopkinson
    Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
  • C. Major General William H. Tunner
    Major General William H. Tunner was a U.S. Air Force officer renowned as a pioneering airlift commander, best known for orchestrating large-scale air supply operations such as the Berlin Airlift.
  • D. General William L. Shelton
    General William L. Shelton is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who led major space operations and modernization efforts, including serving as commander of Air Force Space Command.
  • E. Colonel Isaac E. Avery
    Colonel Isaac E. Avery was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War, best remembered for his fatal wounding while leading a charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • 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_69a493ec75988190b63a11bafaec29b4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbfcdf848190a2917d796ca84b74 completed March 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac6f11a31481909e11a01b12841b3d completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac71788d0081909d7931319d93db36 completed March 7, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac71cd1f048190b8b4aa48a878d8b7 completed March 7, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.