Triple

T16757969
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shepherd Center E407259 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object James Shepherd
James Shepherd was an American philanthropist and advocate for people with spinal cord and brain injuries, best known for co-founding the Shepherd Center, a leading rehabilitation hospital in Atlanta.
E1242940 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: James Shepherd | Statement: [Shepherd Center, foundedBy, James Shepherd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Shepherd
Context triple: [Shepherd Center, foundedBy, James Shepherd]
  • A. James Sheppard
    James Sheppard is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who has played in the NHL for teams including the Minnesota Wild, San Jose Sharks, and New York Rangers.
  • B. Thomas Shepherd
    Thomas Shepherd is an author known for writing the story for the film "Dolittle."
  • C. James Edward Shepard
    James Edward Shepard was an American educator and founder of North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s historically Black universities.
  • D. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • E. William Sutton
    William Sutton is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the robotics company Rover.
  • 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: James Shepherd
Triple: [Shepherd Center, foundedBy, James Shepherd]
Generated description
James Shepherd was an American philanthropist and advocate for people with spinal cord and brain injuries, best known for co-founding the Shepherd Center, a leading rehabilitation hospital in Atlanta.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Shepherd
Target entity description: James Shepherd was an American philanthropist and advocate for people with spinal cord and brain injuries, best known for co-founding the Shepherd Center, a leading rehabilitation hospital in Atlanta.
  • A. James Sheppard
    James Sheppard is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who has played in the NHL for teams including the Minnesota Wild, San Jose Sharks, and New York Rangers.
  • B. Thomas Shepherd
    Thomas Shepherd is an author known for writing the story for the film "Dolittle."
  • C. James Edward Shepard
    James Edward Shepard was an American educator and founder of North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s historically Black universities.
  • D. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • E. William Sutton
    William Sutton is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the robotics company Rover.
  • 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_69d8839174188190909f190097207065 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3abea156c8190a5ee6d0028471810 completed April 18, 2026, 4:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00d44d0a6c819099d9bbef51001846 completed May 10, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d503f4f08190a0dcdb050d5bc7a3 completed May 10, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d5adee908190a13bfc765e7c8f06 completed May 10, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:21 a.m.