Triple

T1216687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kannapolis, North Carolina E26120 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object A. Cannon
A. Cannon was a prominent figure associated with Kannapolis, North Carolina, likely a key industrialist or community leader after whom the city was named.
 E139127 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: A. Cannon | Statement: [Kannapolis, North Carolina, namedAfter, A. Cannon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: A. Cannon
Context triple: [Kannapolis, North Carolina, namedAfter, A. Cannon]
  • A. Daniel Kirkwood
    Daniel Kirkwood was a 19th-century American astronomer best known for discovering the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt.
  • B. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • C. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • D. James Edward Keeler
    James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
  • E. Robert Kerr
    Robert Kerr is a Canadian filmmaker and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the large-format cinema company IMAX.
  • 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: A. Cannon
Triple: [Kannapolis, North Carolina, namedAfter, A. Cannon]
Generated description
A. Cannon was a prominent figure associated with Kannapolis, North Carolina, likely a key industrialist or community leader after whom the city was named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: A. Cannon
Target entity description: A. Cannon was a prominent figure associated with Kannapolis, North Carolina, likely a key industrialist or community leader after whom the city was named.
  • A. Daniel Kirkwood
    Daniel Kirkwood was a 19th-century American astronomer best known for discovering the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt.
  • B. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • C. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • D. James Edward Keeler
    James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
  • E. Robert Kerr
    Robert Kerr is a Canadian filmmaker and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the large-format cinema company IMAX.
  • 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_69a4948331fc8190b531ac9bec71c491 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be06d6308190a44c505e6b5e8d42 completed March 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac831fb6bc8190907f36e52489ec5c completed March 7, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac839076708190882fe59c80bd3e7e completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac84092f088190894b3ca2a268e5c1 completed March 7, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.