Triple

T1340181
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilmington insurrection of 1898 E28445 entity
Predicate participant P858 FINISHED
Object Furnifold Simmons
Furnifold Simmons was a powerful early 20th-century North Carolina Democratic politician and U.S. senator known for orchestrating white supremacist campaigns that entrenched Jim Crow rule in the state.
E162219 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: Furnifold Simmons | Statement: [Wilmington insurrection of 1898, participant, Furnifold Simmons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Furnifold Simmons
Context triple: [Wilmington insurrection of 1898, participant, Furnifold Simmons]
  • A. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • B. Jethro Pugh
    Jethro Pugh was an American defensive tackle best known for his long and successful career with the Dallas Cowboys during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Harmon Jones
    Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
  • D. Benjamin Hooks
    Benjamin Hooks was an American civil rights leader, attorney, minister, and former FCC commissioner best known for serving as executive director of the NAACP from 1977 to 1992.
  • E. Aber Whitcomb
    Aber Whitcomb is an American technology entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and former chief technology officer of the social networking site MySpace.
  • 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: Furnifold Simmons
Triple: [Wilmington insurrection of 1898, participant, Furnifold Simmons]
Generated description
Furnifold Simmons was a powerful early 20th-century North Carolina Democratic politician and U.S. senator known for orchestrating white supremacist campaigns that entrenched Jim Crow rule in the state.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Furnifold Simmons
Target entity description: Furnifold Simmons was a powerful early 20th-century North Carolina Democratic politician and U.S. senator known for orchestrating white supremacist campaigns that entrenched Jim Crow rule in the state.
  • A. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • B. Jethro Pugh
    Jethro Pugh was an American defensive tackle best known for his long and successful career with the Dallas Cowboys during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Harmon Jones
    Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
  • D. Benjamin Hooks
    Benjamin Hooks was an American civil rights leader, attorney, minister, and former FCC commissioner best known for serving as executive director of the NAACP from 1977 to 1992.
  • E. Aber Whitcomb
    Aber Whitcomb is an American technology entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and former chief technology officer of the social networking site MySpace.
  • 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_69a49854eb3481908c7d56b2e449a290 completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c21490488190b4281a16c87677d1 completed March 1, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace56298708190819518926b2b608f completed March 8, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace639296881909dc3fe52720d120d completed March 8, 2026, 3 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace7730cf08190a4e0329be205da3f completed March 8, 2026, 3:05 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.