Triple

T17050291
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hepburn Act E413675 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Peters Hepburn E413678 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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 Peters Hepburn | Statement: [Hepburn Act, namedAfter, William Peters Hepburn]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Peters Hepburn
Context triple: [Hepburn Act, namedAfter, William Peters Hepburn]
  • A. William Peters Hepburn chosen
    William Peters Hepburn was an American Republican congressman from Iowa best known for his leadership in railroad regulation and sponsorship of the landmark Hepburn Act of 1906.
  • B. William Fitzgerald Harper
    William Fitzgerald Harper is an American actor best known for his role as Chidi Anagonye on the television series "The Good Place."
  • C. Willard Robertson
    Willard Robertson was an American character actor and playwright active in early 20th-century stage and film, often appearing in supporting roles in Hollywood movies.
  • D. Richard Russell
    Richard Russell is a British record producer and music executive best known as the co-founder and longtime head of the influential independent label XL Recordings.
  • E. Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
    Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d886cde3d481908d4d01ba88ba7eb7 elicitation completed
NER batch_69e3daa1aeac81909e8d97bd708c6b71 ner completed
NED1 batch_6a012341b8e88190a2bee865be5ca1c1 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.