Triple

T11601029
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Nelson Jr. E275128 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William Nelson
William Nelson was a prominent colonial Virginia planter and politician who served as acting governor and was the father of American Founding Father Thomas Nelson Jr.
E1025831 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 Nelson | Statement: [Thomas Nelson Jr., father, William Nelson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nelson
Context triple: [Thomas Nelson Jr., father, William Nelson]
  • A. William Nelson
    William Nelson was a British nobleman best known as the elder brother and heir of Admiral Horatio Nelson, who was granted the title Duke of Bronté in Sicily.
  • B. James Van Ness
    James Van Ness was a 19th-century American politician who served as mayor of San Francisco and for whom the city's major thoroughfare Van Ness Avenue is named.
  • C. Nelson DeWitt
    Nelson DeWitt is an American documentary filmmaker and writer known for exploring themes of identity, family history, and personal discovery.
  • D. Cecil Doggette
    Cecil Doggette is a former American football defensive back who played in the NFL and NFL Europe, notably for teams such as the New York Jets and the Frankfurt Galaxy.
  • E. Frank Mansfield
    Frank Mansfield is the fiercely competitive, emotionally restrained cockfighter at the center of Charles Willeford’s novel and its film adaptation, whose obsessive pursuit of a championship drives the story’s moral and personal conflicts.
  • 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 Nelson
Triple: [Thomas Nelson Jr., father, William Nelson]
Generated description
William Nelson was a prominent colonial Virginia planter and politician who served as acting governor and was the father of American Founding Father Thomas Nelson Jr.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nelson
Target entity description: William Nelson was a prominent colonial Virginia planter and politician who served as acting governor and was the father of American Founding Father Thomas Nelson Jr.
  • A. William Nelson
    William Nelson was a British nobleman best known as the elder brother and heir of Admiral Horatio Nelson, who was granted the title Duke of Bronté in Sicily.
  • B. James Van Ness
    James Van Ness was a 19th-century American politician who served as mayor of San Francisco and for whom the city's major thoroughfare Van Ness Avenue is named.
  • C. Nelson DeWitt
    Nelson DeWitt is an American documentary filmmaker and writer known for exploring themes of identity, family history, and personal discovery.
  • D. Cecil Doggette
    Cecil Doggette is a former American football defensive back who played in the NFL and NFL Europe, notably for teams such as the New York Jets and the Frankfurt Galaxy.
  • E. Frank Mansfield
    Frank Mansfield is the fiercely competitive, emotionally restrained cockfighter at the center of Charles Willeford’s novel and its film adaptation, whose obsessive pursuit of a championship drives the story’s moral and personal conflicts.
  • 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_69d6aae6b14c81908dc5a74bad7591f9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8954daa908190a8d532e43aa4a881 completed April 10, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6f5b196bc8190a643f2b534497476 completed May 3, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6f694f8c48190adce4cddbf63777f completed May 3, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6f7d8bfa0819097b3d9175bc56933 completed May 3, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.