Triple
T11601029
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Nelson Jr. |
E275128
|
entity |
| Predicate | father |
P120
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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.
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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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
Nelson DeWitt
Nelson DeWitt is an American documentary filmmaker and writer known for exploring themes of identity, family history, and personal discovery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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C.
Nelson DeWitt
Nelson DeWitt is an American documentary filmmaker and writer known for exploring themes of identity, family history, and personal discovery.
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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.
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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.