Triple

T16535179
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butler County, Iowa E401672 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Butler
William Butler was a figure significant enough in Iowa's early history that Butler County was named in his honor, likely recognizing his contributions as a pioneer or local leader.
E1217716 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 Butler | Statement: [Butler County, Iowa, namedAfter, William Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Butler
Context triple: [Butler County, Iowa, namedAfter, William Butler]
  • A. William Butler
    William Butler is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his roles in 1980s and 1990s horror films.
  • B. George Yeats
    George Yeats (born Georgie Hyde-Lees) was an English-born Irish woman best known as the wife and muse of poet W. B. Yeats and a noted practitioner of automatic writing that influenced his work.
  • C. Robert Fitzgerald
    Robert Fitzgerald was an American poet, critic, and renowned translator of classical Greek and Latin literature, best known for his influential English versions of Homer’s epics.
  • D. G. R. Yeats
    G. R. Yeats was a British architect best known for designing London’s iconic BT Tower telecommunications structure.
  • E. W.B. Yeats
    W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, a leading figure of 20th-century literature and co-founder of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, renowned for his lyrical verse and exploration of Irish identity and mysticism.
  • 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 Butler
Triple: [Butler County, Iowa, namedAfter, William Butler]
Generated description
William Butler was a figure significant enough in Iowa's early history that Butler County was named in his honor, likely recognizing his contributions as a pioneer or local leader.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Butler
Target entity description: William Butler was a figure significant enough in Iowa's early history that Butler County was named in his honor, likely recognizing his contributions as a pioneer or local leader.
  • A. William Butler
    William Butler is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his roles in 1980s and 1990s horror films.
  • B. George Yeats
    George Yeats (born Georgie Hyde-Lees) was an English-born Irish woman best known as the wife and muse of poet W. B. Yeats and a noted practitioner of automatic writing that influenced his work.
  • C. Robert Fitzgerald
    Robert Fitzgerald was an American poet, critic, and renowned translator of classical Greek and Latin literature, best known for his influential English versions of Homer’s epics.
  • D. G. R. Yeats
    G. R. Yeats was a British architect best known for designing London’s iconic BT Tower telecommunications structure.
  • E. W.B. Yeats
    W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, a leading figure of 20th-century literature and co-founder of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, renowned for his lyrical verse and exploration of Irish identity and mysticism.
  • 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_69d88384bc30819084229e7dcdc39a41 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e345574d88819094548367bf983078 completed April 18, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a006093244081909ae74674de966d6d completed May 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00615d3edc81909f0eb3e6210d00ee completed May 10, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0062128a388190beb52fa173ed7826 completed May 10, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:15 a.m.