Triple
T13097835
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Confederate States Attorney General |
E310636
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHolder |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas H. Watts |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas H. Watts | Statement: [Confederate States Attorney General, officeHolder, Thomas H. Watts]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas H. Watts Context triple: [Confederate States Attorney General, officeHolder, Thomas H. Watts]
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A.
Thomas H. Watts
chosen
Thomas H. Watts was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Alabama during the Civil War and later became the state's attorney general.
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B.
George H. Scithers
George H. Scithers was an influential American science fiction editor, writer, and fan, known for his award-winning work at magazines such as Asimov’s Science Fiction and Amazing Stories.
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C.
Harry M. Wegeforth
Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
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D.
Theodore A. Welton
Theodore A. Welton was a physicist best known for co-formulating the fluctuation–dissipation theorem, a fundamental result in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
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E.
Benjamin A. Wetherell
Benjamin A. Wetherell was an American architect known for designing notable civic buildings such as the Kalamazoo County Courthouse in Michigan.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d981500d34819097037b3c3c33627b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:01 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:04 p.m.