Triple

T13806359
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Ferguson Sr. E331769 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object John Bowie Ferguson
John Bowie Ferguson is an individual whose full legal name distinguishes him from others sharing the Ferguson surname, including his father, John Ferguson Sr.
E1072606 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: John Bowie Ferguson | Statement: [John Ferguson Sr., fullName, John Bowie Ferguson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Bowie Ferguson
Context triple: [John Ferguson Sr., fullName, John Bowie Ferguson]
  • A. James Gillespie
    James Gillespie was a 19th-century Texas figure, likely a politician or military leader, honored as the namesake of Gillespie County.
  • B. Francis Wallace Burns
    Francis Wallace Burns was one of the sons of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily through his connection to his father's legacy.
  • C. William Nathan Boyd
    William Nathan Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician best known for playing the hobbit Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
  • D. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • E. William Archibald
    William Archibald was a Trinidad-born American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage play "The Innocents," which he adapted from Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw."
  • 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: John Bowie Ferguson
Triple: [John Ferguson Sr., fullName, John Bowie Ferguson]
Generated description
John Bowie Ferguson is an individual whose full legal name distinguishes him from others sharing the Ferguson surname, including his father, John Ferguson Sr.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Bowie Ferguson
Target entity description: John Bowie Ferguson is an individual whose full legal name distinguishes him from others sharing the Ferguson surname, including his father, John Ferguson Sr.
  • A. James Gillespie
    James Gillespie was a 19th-century Texas figure, likely a politician or military leader, honored as the namesake of Gillespie County.
  • B. Francis Wallace Burns
    Francis Wallace Burns was one of the sons of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily through his connection to his father's legacy.
  • C. William Nathan Boyd
    William Nathan Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician best known for playing the hobbit Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
  • D. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • E. William Archibald
    William Archibald was a Trinidad-born American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage play "The Innocents," which he adapted from Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw."
  • 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_69d81c59f8808190a851bc56afdc55e9 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de026d98108190acf366a36d97bf92 completed April 14, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fba1ba309c81908d83ba7efc663787 completed May 6, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fba5bff3b88190b5fcf3834e419b72 completed May 6, 2026, 8:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fba9af1e0c81908d4013410e76535a completed May 6, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:12 p.m.