Triple
T19152812
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Presidency of James Buchanan |
E468850
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entity |
| Predicate | cabinetMember |
P7820
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FINISHED |
| Object | Howell Cobb |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Howell Cobb | Statement: [Presidency of James Buchanan, cabinetMember, Howell Cobb]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howell Cobb Context triple: [Presidency of James Buchanan, cabinetMember, Howell Cobb]
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A.
Howell Cobb
chosen
Howell Cobb was a prominent 19th-century American politician from Georgia who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, governor of Georgia, and a leading Confederate official during the Civil War.
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B.
William H. Toombs
William H. Toombs is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Toombs.
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C.
Thomas R. R. Cobb
Thomas R. R. Cobb was a prominent Confederate general and Georgia lawyer-politician during the American Civil War.
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D.
Robert Toombs
Robert Toombs was an American politician from Georgia who became a prominent leader of the Confederacy, serving as its first Secretary of State and later as a Confederate general during the Civil War.
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E.
Joseph Henry Lumpkin
Joseph Henry Lumpkin was a prominent 19th-century American jurist who became the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8dd084ff48190ac0f8c46ee722629 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5eeb7575c8190b52a9d2bde5ac288 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 9:15 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:06 p.m.