Triple

T1500778
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lenoir, North Carolina E29790 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Lenoir
William Lenoir was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina statesman who became a prominent political and civic leader in the post-colonial South.
E174901 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: William Lenoir | Statement: [Lenoir, North Carolina, namedAfter, William Lenoir]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lenoir
Context triple: [Lenoir, North Carolina, namedAfter, William Lenoir]
  • A. Melancton Smith
    Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
  • B. William Belton
    William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
  • C. Henry Wheaton
    Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
  • D. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • E. Leffert L. Buck
    Leffert L. Buck was an American civil engineer known for his pioneering work in long-span bridge design at the turn of the 20th century.
  • 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: William Lenoir
Triple: [Lenoir, North Carolina, namedAfter, William Lenoir]
Generated description
William Lenoir was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina statesman who became a prominent political and civic leader in the post-colonial South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lenoir
Target entity description: William Lenoir was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina statesman who became a prominent political and civic leader in the post-colonial South.
  • A. Melancton Smith
    Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
  • B. William Belton
    William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
  • C. Henry Wheaton
    Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
  • D. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • E. Leffert L. Buck
    Leffert L. Buck was an American civil engineer known for his pioneering work in long-span bridge design at the turn of the 20th century.
  • 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_69a498dba1d8819093b46a3a8d2485f1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6f2d7f881909188a3e5614335cd completed March 1, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad2945360c8190b20dfdf2f7be4fea completed March 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad29ac46008190b66dac17e37018a5 completed March 8, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2d639b9c81909e52ad373e597e55 completed March 8, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.