Triple

T1351530
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James E. Shepard Memorial Library E28892 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object James E. Shepard E130036 NE FINISHED

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: James E. Shepard | Statement: [James E. Shepard Memorial Library, namedAfter, James E. Shepard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James E. Shepard
Context triple: [James E. Shepard Memorial Library, namedAfter, James E. Shepard]
  • A. James E. Shepard chosen
    James E. Shepard was an African American educator and civil rights advocate who founded what became North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s prominent historically Black universities.
  • B. Joseph E. Sheffield
    Joseph E. Sheffield was a 19th-century American railroad executive and philanthropist whose major donations to Yale University led to the establishment of the Sheffield Scientific School.
  • C. Bradford M. Durfee
    Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Samuel J. Kirkwood
    Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69a498571d248190a0ac9eb02d97097f completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c26b1b4881908ae4b1b2c9b268a0 completed March 1, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdc4fea8fc8190bf99d53fc56d7d39 completed March 20, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.