Triple

T1345216
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sanford, North Carolina E28554 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object C. O. Sanford
C. O. Sanford was a notable figure after whom the city of Sanford, North Carolina, was named, likely due to his influence or prominence in the region’s history.
 E213837 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: C. O. Sanford | Statement: [Sanford, North Carolina, namedAfter, C. O. Sanford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: C. O. Sanford
Context triple: [Sanford, North Carolina, namedAfter, C. O. Sanford]
  • A. Holmes C. Hartfield
    Holmes C. Hartfield is an author known for writing the work titled "A Call for Unity."
  • B. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • C. Bartlett S. Durham
    Bartlett S. Durham was a 19th-century physician and landowner whose donated land for a railroad depot led to the founding and naming of the city of Durham, North Carolina.
  • D. William Pope Duval
    William Pope Duval was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first civilian governor of the Florida Territory in the early 19th century.
  • E. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • 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: C. O. Sanford
Triple: [Sanford, North Carolina, namedAfter, C. O. Sanford]
Generated description
C. O. Sanford was a notable figure after whom the city of Sanford, North Carolina, was named, likely due to his influence or prominence in the region’s history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: C. O. Sanford
Target entity description: C. O. Sanford was a notable figure after whom the city of Sanford, North Carolina, was named, likely due to his influence or prominence in the region’s history.
  • A. Holmes C. Hartfield
    Holmes C. Hartfield is an author known for writing the work titled "A Call for Unity."
  • B. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • C. Bartlett S. Durham
    Bartlett S. Durham was a 19th-century physician and landowner whose donated land for a railroad depot led to the founding and naming of the city of Durham, North Carolina.
  • D. William Pope Duval
    William Pope Duval was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first civilian governor of the Florida Territory in the early 19th century.
  • E. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • 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_69a4c23d696c8190bb688274280cb680 completed March 1, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adeab9dd008190a07b22ba3bd5bc22 completed March 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adeb503ec88190b8d0cb17bbb8f520 completed March 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adef13e030819086e9e8862198d859 completed March 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.