Triple

T13784616
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alexander Spotswood E331220 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Edmund Jenings
Edmund Jenings was a colonial Virginia politician and lawyer who served in several high offices, including acting governor of the colony in the early 18th century.
E1061737 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: Edmund Jenings | Statement: [Alexander Spotswood, predecessor, Edmund Jenings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Jenings
Context triple: [Alexander Spotswood, predecessor, Edmund Jenings]
  • A. William Phipps
    William Phipps was an American actor best known for providing the speaking voice of Prince Charming in Disney’s animated classic "Cinderella" (1950).
  • B. Richard Nicolls
    Richard Nicolls was a 17th-century English military officer and colonial governor best known for leading the expedition that captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch and became the first English governor of New York.
  • C. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • D. Ignatius Sargent
    Ignatius Sargent was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and financier known for his influential role in New England’s early industrial and railroad development.
  • E. Edmund Ball
    Edmund Ball was an American industrialist and member of the Ball family who helped build Ball Corporation into a major manufacturer of glass jars and packaging products.
  • 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: Edmund Jenings
Triple: [Alexander Spotswood, predecessor, Edmund Jenings]
Generated description
Edmund Jenings was a colonial Virginia politician and lawyer who served in several high offices, including acting governor of the colony in the early 18th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Jenings
Target entity description: Edmund Jenings was a colonial Virginia politician and lawyer who served in several high offices, including acting governor of the colony in the early 18th century.
  • A. William Phipps
    William Phipps was an American actor best known for providing the speaking voice of Prince Charming in Disney’s animated classic "Cinderella" (1950).
  • B. Richard Nicolls
    Richard Nicolls was a 17th-century English military officer and colonial governor best known for leading the expedition that captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch and became the first English governor of New York.
  • C. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • D. Ignatius Sargent
    Ignatius Sargent was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and financier known for his influential role in New England’s early industrial and railroad development.
  • E. Edmund Ball
    Edmund Ball was an American industrialist and member of the Ball family who helped build Ball Corporation into a major manufacturer of glass jars and packaging products.
  • 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.