Triple

T13784594
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alexander Spotswood E331220 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Germanna settlement
Germanna settlement was an early 18th-century colonial community in Virginia established as a frontier outpost and mining colony for German immigrants.
E1061735 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: Germanna settlement | Statement: [Alexander Spotswood, founded, Germanna settlement]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Germanna settlement
Context triple: [Alexander Spotswood, founded, Germanna settlement]
  • A. Western Settlement
    Western Settlement was one of the two principal Norse colonies in medieval Greenland, located in the island’s more inland and western fjords.
  • B. Eastern Settlement
    Eastern Settlement was the largest and earliest Norse colony in southern Greenland, serving as the primary center of Greenlandic Norse life during the medieval period.
  • C. Reister’s Town
    Reister’s Town was the original name of what is now Reisterstown, a historic community in Maryland that developed as a key stop along early travel routes northwest of Baltimore.
  • D. Point Pleasant, Virginia Colony
    Point Pleasant, Virginia Colony was an 18th-century frontier settlement at the confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, known as a strategic site in colonial-era conflicts between British settlers and Native American tribes.
  • E. Anderdon Wyandot settlement
    The Anderdon Wyandot settlement was a historic Indigenous community of the Wyandot (Huron) people located in the Anderdon region along the lower Detroit River corridor.
  • 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: Germanna settlement
Triple: [Alexander Spotswood, founded, Germanna settlement]
Generated description
Germanna settlement was an early 18th-century colonial community in Virginia established as a frontier outpost and mining colony for German immigrants.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Germanna settlement
Target entity description: Germanna settlement was an early 18th-century colonial community in Virginia established as a frontier outpost and mining colony for German immigrants.
  • A. Western Settlement
    Western Settlement was one of the two principal Norse colonies in medieval Greenland, located in the island’s more inland and western fjords.
  • B. Eastern Settlement
    Eastern Settlement was the largest and earliest Norse colony in southern Greenland, serving as the primary center of Greenlandic Norse life during the medieval period.
  • C. Reister’s Town
    Reister’s Town was the original name of what is now Reisterstown, a historic community in Maryland that developed as a key stop along early travel routes northwest of Baltimore.
  • D. Point Pleasant, Virginia Colony
    Point Pleasant, Virginia Colony was an 18th-century frontier settlement at the confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, known as a strategic site in colonial-era conflicts between British settlers and Native American tribes.
  • E. Anderdon Wyandot settlement
    The Anderdon Wyandot settlement was a historic Indigenous community of the Wyandot (Huron) people located in the Anderdon region along the lower Detroit River corridor.
  • 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_69d81c58feb08190a77bca8bf7d6d20f completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0248db988190aa43c3723af25f90 completed April 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b07b0b2881909b316e3cc67f1ec1 completed May 3, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b138158c8190957d43d529c37fa4 completed May 3, 2026, 8:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7b1e0ab948190a046a68aa5e029a6 completed May 3, 2026, 8:36 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:11 p.m.