Triple

T1168872
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National Religious Training School and Chautauqua E24864 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object James E. Shepard E130036 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: James E. Shepard | Statement: [National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, founder, James E. Shepard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James E. Shepard
Context triple: [National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, founder, James E. Shepard]
  • A. James E. Shepard chosen
    James E. Shepard was an African American educator and civil rights advocate who founded what became North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s prominent historically Black universities.
  • B. Joseph E. Sheffield
    Joseph E. Sheffield was a 19th-century American railroad executive and philanthropist whose major donations to Yale University led to the establishment of the Sheffield Scientific School.
  • C. Harry M. Wegeforth
    Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
  • D. Samuel J. Kirkwood
    Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
  • E. William A. Shea
    William A. Shea was an American lawyer and civic leader best known for spearheading the return of National League baseball to New York City, leading to the founding of the New York Mets and the naming of Shea Stadium in his honor.
  • 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_69a494082a7c819095004f423f294a64 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bce821b481908bc278a3fa7973f4 completed March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bb807d9c388190af594bce7f592d7d completed March 19, 2026, 4:50 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.