Triple

T1897429
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Davidson County E37613 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Lee Davidson
William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in battle in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson County.
E222434 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 Lee Davidson | Statement: [Davidson County, namedAfter, William Lee Davidson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lee Davidson
Context triple: [Davidson County, namedAfter, William Lee Davidson]
  • A. S. Kenneth Davidson
    S. Kenneth Davidson was a businessman best known for owning the Oakland Oaks professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association.
  • B. John M. Dawson
    John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
  • C. William Davidson Niven
    William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist known for his editorial work on major scientific texts and his contributions to mathematical education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. John Dawson
    John Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and fusion research.
  • E. David Healy
    David Healy is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who became a successful manager in the Irish League.
  • 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 Lee Davidson
Triple: [Davidson County, namedAfter, William Lee Davidson]
Generated description
William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in battle in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson County.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lee Davidson
Target entity description: William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in battle in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson County.
  • A. S. Kenneth Davidson
    S. Kenneth Davidson was a businessman best known for owning the Oakland Oaks professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association.
  • B. John M. Dawson
    John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
  • C. William Davidson Niven
    William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist known for his editorial work on major scientific texts and his contributions to mathematical education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. John Dawson
    John Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and fusion research.
  • E. John Dawson
    John Dawson is a fictional character named John Dawson who appears in the work featuring the character Dawn.
  • 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_69a8861be7148190a680937ec451a304 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb16f416c8190a49b24523b3a7f85 completed March 7, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae030e55f88190a9996d785066ea20 completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae045e13d481909a4654540077eb10 completed March 8, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae04acc098819084a5801d8714a14b completed March 8, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.