Triple

T14222915
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boyce, Virginia E352541 entity
Predicate namedFor P63 FINISHED
Object Col. Upton L. Boyce
Col. Upton L. Boyce was a prominent figure after whom the town of Boyce, Virginia, was named, likely reflecting his local influence or service.
E1088597 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: Col. Upton L. Boyce | Statement: [Boyce, Virginia, namedFor, Col. Upton L. Boyce]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Col. Upton L. Boyce
Context triple: [Boyce, Virginia, namedFor, Col. Upton L. Boyce]
  • A. Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
    Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
  • B. Col. Abraham C. Myers
    Col. Abraham C. Myers was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and later Confederate quartermaster general after whom the city of Fort Myers, Florida, is named.
  • C. Colonel James C. Rice
    Colonel James C. Rice was a Union Army officer and regimental commander in the American Civil War, noted for leading the 44th New York Infantry.
  • D. Colonel Isaac E. Avery
    Colonel Isaac E. Avery was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War, best remembered for his fatal wounding while leading a charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • E. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • 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: Col. Upton L. Boyce
Triple: [Boyce, Virginia, namedFor, Col. Upton L. Boyce]
Generated description
Col. Upton L. Boyce was a prominent figure after whom the town of Boyce, Virginia, was named, likely reflecting his local influence or service.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Col. Upton L. Boyce
Target entity description: Col. Upton L. Boyce was a prominent figure after whom the town of Boyce, Virginia, was named, likely reflecting his local influence or service.
  • A. Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
    Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
  • B. Col. Abraham C. Myers
    Col. Abraham C. Myers was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and later Confederate quartermaster general after whom the city of Fort Myers, Florida, is named.
  • C. Colonel James C. Rice
    Colonel James C. Rice was a Union Army officer and regimental commander in the American Civil War, noted for leading the 44th New York Infantry.
  • D. Colonel Isaac E. Avery
    Colonel Isaac E. Avery was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War, best remembered for his fatal wounding while leading a charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • E. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • 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_69d8278a06e481908b5d6af0a8afe737 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de6227c288819081473ce44f9f0934 completed April 14, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd2813e55881909bdbc6f3c6ef572b completed May 8, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd2b0956948190bf654403ad0b154a completed May 8, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd2df66aa48190ae18a4ca1c099c25 completed May 8, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:06 a.m.