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]
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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.
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B.
John Macpherson
John Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who briefly served as acting Governor-General of Bengal in the late 18th century.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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B.
John Macpherson
John Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who briefly served as acting Governor-General of Bengal in the late 18th century.
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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.
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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.
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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.