Triple

T1194052
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard University School of Law E25626 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Douglas Wilder
Douglas Wilder is an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected African American governor in U.S. history, serving as governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994.
E141199 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: Douglas Wilder | Statement: [Howard University School of Law, notableAlumnus, Douglas Wilder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas Wilder
Context triple: [Howard University School of Law, notableAlumnus, Douglas Wilder]
  • A. Alan Johnson
    Alan Johnson is a British Labour politician who served as Home Secretary and held several other senior cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
  • B. Nelson H. Barbour
    Nelson H. Barbour was a 19th-century American Adventist preacher and writer whose prophetic teachings and publications significantly shaped early Bible Student theology and chronology.
  • C. Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and politician known for his work alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and for founding the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
  • D. Robert L. Carter
    Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
  • E. Tim Kaine
    Tim Kaine is an American Democratic politician and U.S. senator from Virginia who served as Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2016 election and is known for his prior roles as Virginia governor and lieutenant governor.
  • 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: Douglas Wilder
Triple: [Howard University School of Law, notableAlumnus, Douglas Wilder]
Generated description
Douglas Wilder is an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected African American governor in U.S. history, serving as governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas Wilder
Target entity description: Douglas Wilder is an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected African American governor in U.S. history, serving as governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994.
  • A. Alan Johnson
    Alan Johnson is a British Labour politician who served as Home Secretary and held several other senior cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
  • B. Nelson H. Barbour
    Nelson H. Barbour was a 19th-century American Adventist preacher and writer whose prophetic teachings and publications significantly shaped early Bible Student theology and chronology.
  • C. Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and politician known for his work alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and for founding the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
  • D. Robert L. Carter
    Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
  • E. Tim Kaine
    Tim Kaine is an American Democratic politician and U.S. senator from Virginia who served as Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2016 election and is known for his prior roles as Virginia governor and lieutenant governor.
  • 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd7743548190a70d3f3c7378aaa7 completed March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8a08e1a881908b3f3a41cc1fb010 completed March 7, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac8a8a9b208190aed3bcc4697415d1 completed March 7, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac8b17ae048190b32e89d2f2a60ba3 completed March 7, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.