Triple

T13082468
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fergus Falls, Minnesota E310242 entity
Predicate namedFor P63 FINISHED
Object James Fergus
James Fergus was a 19th-century Scottish-American pioneer and early settler in the Upper Midwest and Montana, after whom the city of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, is named.
E1034970 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: James Fergus | Statement: [Fergus Falls, Minnesota, namedFor, James Fergus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Fergus
Context triple: [Fergus Falls, Minnesota, namedFor, James Fergus]
  • A. William Ferguson
    William Ferguson was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights leader and activist who played a key role in organizing early campaigns for Indigenous rights and equality in the 20th century.
  • B. John Macpherson
    John Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who briefly served as acting Governor-General of Bengal in the late 18th century.
  • C. George Fergusson
    George Fergusson is a British diplomat who has served as Governor of Bermuda and held various senior positions in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
  • D. James Anthony Carmichael
    James Anthony Carmichael is an American record producer and arranger best known for his work with Motown artists such as Commodores and Lionel Richie.
  • E. William Findlay
    William Findlay was an American politician who served as the fourth Governor of Pennsylvania and later as a United States Senator in the early 19th 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: James Fergus
Triple: [Fergus Falls, Minnesota, namedFor, James Fergus]
Generated description
James Fergus was a 19th-century Scottish-American pioneer and early settler in the Upper Midwest and Montana, after whom the city of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, is named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Fergus
Target entity description: James Fergus was a 19th-century Scottish-American pioneer and early settler in the Upper Midwest and Montana, after whom the city of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, is named.
  • A. William Ferguson
    William Ferguson was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights leader and activist who played a key role in organizing early campaigns for Indigenous rights and equality in the 20th century.
  • B. John Macpherson
    John Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who briefly served as acting Governor-General of Bengal in the late 18th century.
  • C. George Fergusson
    George Fergusson is a British diplomat who has served as Governor of Bermuda and held various senior positions in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
  • D. James Anthony Carmichael
    James Anthony Carmichael is an American record producer and arranger best known for his work with Motown artists such as Commodores and Lionel Richie.
  • E. William Findlay
    William Findlay was an American politician who served as the fourth Governor of Pennsylvania and later as a United States Senator in the early 19th 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_69d806a733548190989cfd4ce981ca33 completed April 9, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9811add9881908a92186dab5b6d48 completed April 10, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f71f0ff20081909f277d9c8dc8b043 completed May 3, 2026, 10:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f720f84c7c8190b0f8de684dd67b42 completed May 3, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f721baaf34819081113c586fae013f completed May 3, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:01 p.m.