Triple

T12016171
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smithers, West Virginia E286030 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Smithers family
The Smithers family is a local family in West Virginia historically significant enough to lend its name to the town of Smithers.
 E960737 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: Smithers family | Statement: [Smithers, West Virginia, namedAfter, Smithers family]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Smithers family
Context triple: [Smithers, West Virginia, namedAfter, Smithers family]
  • A. Smith family
    The Smith family is the central household in the classic 1944 musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," depicting their everyday joys, romances, and challenges in early 20th-century St. Louis.
  • B. Smith family
    The Smith family is a notable American family that includes Cannon Smith among its members.
  • C. Smith family
    The Smith family is the central human household in the animated television series "American Dad!", with whom the extraterrestrial character Roger the Alien lives and interacts.
  • D. Smith family
    The Smith family is an American media-owning family best known for controlling Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest television station operators in the United States.
  • E. Smith family
    The Smith family is a familial group sharing the Smith surname, connected by kinship ties that include Malissa Smith among its members.
  • 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: Smithers family
Triple: [Smithers, West Virginia, namedAfter, Smithers family]
Generated description
The Smithers family is a local family in West Virginia historically significant enough to lend its name to the town of Smithers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Smithers family
Target entity description: The Smithers family is a local family in West Virginia historically significant enough to lend its name to the town of Smithers.
  • A. Smith family
    The Smith family is the central human household in the animated television series "American Dad!", with whom the extraterrestrial character Roger the Alien lives and interacts.
  • B. Smith family
    The Smith family is the central household in the classic 1944 musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," depicting their everyday joys, romances, and challenges in early 20th-century St. Louis.
  • C. Smith family
    The Smith family is an American media-owning family best known for controlling Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest television station operators in the United States.
  • D. Smith family
    The Smith family is a notable American family that includes Cannon Smith among its members.
  • E. Smith family
    The Smith family is a familial group sharing the Smith surname, connected by kinship ties that include Malissa Smith among its members.
  • 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_69d6ab45a368819084fce08bf0dc3705 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903d9b17881908894be80d7c1b64e completed April 10, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f48b53cd08819084a9335449844f12 completed May 1, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f48fc6da4c81908442f18cb4a65b27 completed May 1, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f495cc50908190aab4f8ca64c66ef3 completed May 1, 2026, noon
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:47 p.m.