Triple

T12904219
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert M. T. Hunter E308690 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter was a prominent 19th-century American politician from Virginia who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. senator, and later as the Confederate States Secretary of State during the Civil War.
E1022632 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: Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter | Statement: [Robert M. T. Hunter, fullName, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
Context triple: [Robert M. T. Hunter, fullName, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter]
  • A. John Randolph Tucker
    John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
  • B. John Hunter Blair
    John Hunter Blair is a British television producer best known for creating the long-running children's TV programme "Blue Peter."
  • C. Robert Larimore Riggs
    Robert Larimore "Bobby" Riggs was an American tennis champion and hustler best known for his 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match against Billie Jean King.
  • D. Henry Toombs Randolph
    Henry Toombs Randolph was a notable member of the prominent Randolph family of Virginia, a lineage influential in the social and political history of the American South.
  • E. James Petigru Boyce
    James Petigru Boyce was a 19th-century American Baptist theologian and educator who played a leading role in shaping Southern Baptist theology and ministerial training.
  • 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: Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
Triple: [Robert M. T. Hunter, fullName, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter]
Generated description
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter was a prominent 19th-century American politician from Virginia who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. senator, and later as the Confederate States Secretary of State during the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
Target entity description: Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter was a prominent 19th-century American politician from Virginia who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. senator, and later as the Confederate States Secretary of State during the Civil War.
  • A. John Randolph Tucker
    John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
  • B. John Hunter Blair
    John Hunter Blair is a British television producer best known for creating the long-running children's TV programme "Blue Peter."
  • C. Robert Larimore Riggs
    Robert Larimore "Bobby" Riggs was an American tennis champion and hustler best known for his 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match against Billie Jean King.
  • D. Henry Toombs Randolph
    Henry Toombs Randolph was a notable member of the prominent Randolph family of Virginia, a lineage influential in the social and political history of the American South.
  • E. James Petigru Boyce
    James Petigru Boyce was a 19th-century American Baptist theologian and educator who played a leading role in shaping Southern Baptist theology and ministerial training.
  • 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_69d7bdf92b588190acdf2a2291ac4590 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d971831bd48190b0ecd13e7181bbc6 completed April 10, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6e262580c8190ad3f1aa77fd0674c completed May 3, 2026, 5:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6e4774f4881908692c2d57158db4a completed May 3, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6e5630a5c8190bc17abac3cc6612e completed May 3, 2026, 6:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:40 p.m.