Triple

T14770118
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alanson, Michigan E347107 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Alanson Shearer
Alanson Shearer was an early local figure of significance in Michigan, likely a pioneer settler or landowner, after whom the village of Alanson, Michigan, was named.
E1145967 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: Alanson Shearer | Statement: [Alanson, Michigan, namedAfter, Alanson Shearer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alanson Shearer
Context triple: [Alanson, Michigan, namedAfter, Alanson Shearer]
  • A. Allan Shivers
    Allan Shivers was a mid-20th-century American politician who served as governor of Texas and was influential in the state's conservative Democratic politics.
  • B. Asa Biggs
    Asa Biggs was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and later a federal judge.
  • C. John Gilleland
    John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
  • D. William Drinkard
    William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
  • E. Herald Loomis
    Herald Loomis is the haunted, spiritually searching protagonist of August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," whose journey embodies the struggle of African Americans to reclaim identity and freedom after slavery.
  • 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: Alanson Shearer
Triple: [Alanson, Michigan, namedAfter, Alanson Shearer]
Generated description
Alanson Shearer was an early local figure of significance in Michigan, likely a pioneer settler or landowner, after whom the village of Alanson, Michigan, was named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alanson Shearer
Target entity description: Alanson Shearer was an early local figure of significance in Michigan, likely a pioneer settler or landowner, after whom the village of Alanson, Michigan, was named.
  • A. Allan Shivers
    Allan Shivers was a mid-20th-century American politician who served as governor of Texas and was influential in the state's conservative Democratic politics.
  • B. Asa Biggs
    Asa Biggs was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and later a federal judge.
  • C. John Gilleland
    John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
  • D. William Drinkard
    William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
  • E. Herald Loomis
    Herald Loomis is the haunted, spiritually searching protagonist of August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," whose journey embodies the struggle of African Americans to reclaim identity and freedom after slavery.
  • 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_69d822e8896c819091169882f9b20486 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dec81334e08190a77d760e507d00ed completed April 14, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fee5dee8988190b80cb487c12bfc2d completed May 9, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fee68055b88190afa0e3b1bc2b13bb completed May 9, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fee7190a6c81908fa7376f3e3c5371 completed May 9, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:31 a.m.