Triple

T19739269
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Hendren Bell E474069 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded — 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: Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded | Statement: [John Hendren Bell, employer, Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded
Context triple: [John Hendren Bell, employer, Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded]
  • A. Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded chosen
    The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded was a state-run institution in Virginia infamous for its role in the early 20th-century eugenics movement, including the forced sterilization of patients upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell.
  • B. York County Lunatic Asylum
    York County Lunatic Asylum was a 19th-century psychiatric institution in York, England, established to house and treat people with mental illnesses under the era’s asylum system.
  • C. Athens State Hospital
    Athens State Hospital was a 19th-century psychiatric institution in Athens, Ohio, later known as The Ridges and noted for its Kirkbride-plan architecture and role in the region’s mental health history.
  • D. Vermont Asylum for the Insane
    Vermont Asylum for the Insane was the original name of what is now the Brattleboro Retreat, a historic psychiatric hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont.
  • E. Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
    The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is a historic 19th-century psychiatric hospital in Weston, West Virginia, renowned for its massive Gothic Revival architecture and status as one of the largest hand-cut stone masonry buildings in the United States.
  • 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_69d8e517ebd48190979ee76723bcfadf completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e651607e388190bbb2aaed252820fe completed April 20, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:47 p.m.