Triple
T1299492
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Clark County |
E27728
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William A. Clark
William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
|
E152746
|
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: William A. Clark | Statement: [Clark County, namedAfter, William A. Clark]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Clark Context triple: [Clark County, namedAfter, William A. Clark]
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A.
Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
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B.
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sanford Robinson Gifford was a 19th-century American landscape painter renowned for his luminous, atmospheric scenes that made him a leading figure in the Hudson River School.
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C.
William Clark
William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, and territorial governor best known as the co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
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D.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
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E.
Cushman K. Davis
Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
- 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: William A. Clark Triple: [Clark County, namedAfter, William A. Clark]
Generated description
William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Clark Target entity description: William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
-
A.
Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
-
B.
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sanford Robinson Gifford was a 19th-century American landscape painter renowned for his luminous, atmospheric scenes that made him a leading figure in the Hudson River School.
-
C.
William Clark
William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, and territorial governor best known as the co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
-
D.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
-
E.
Cushman K. Davis
Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
- 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_69a496d6682881909ba658f1c1e0e2b0 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c11314a48190ab4efb8b1acdce50 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:43 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acbf243adc8190b8516554701b4290 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:13 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69acc2dc5c4c8190b6ba418aaacd1101 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:29 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69acc3ba816081908892101de3bfbf3e |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:32 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.