Triple

T1982101
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blount County, Tennessee E43049 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Blount
William Blount was an American Founding Father, land speculator, and politician who signed the U.S. Constitution and served as the first territorial governor of the Southwest Territory.
 E221250 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 Blount | Statement: [Blount County, Tennessee, namedAfter, William Blount]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Blount
Context triple: [Blount County, Tennessee, namedAfter, William Blount]
  • A. Abraham Eustis
    Abraham Eustis was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and artillery commander after whom Fort Eustis in Virginia was named.
  • B. Archibald Roane
    Archibald Roane was an early American politician and jurist who served as the second governor of Tennessee in the early 19th century.
  • C. James Iredell Sr.
    James Iredell Sr. was an influential early American jurist and statesman who served as one of the original Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court and played a key role in shaping constitutional law.
  • D. James Iredell Jr.
    James Iredell Jr. was an American politician who served as the 23rd governor of North Carolina in the early 19th century.
  • E. Samuel Johnston
    Samuel Johnston was an American lawyer, statesman, and early political leader from North Carolina who served as governor of the state and as a U.S. senator after the Revolutionary War.
  • 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 Blount
Triple: [Blount County, Tennessee, namedAfter, William Blount]
Generated description
William Blount was an American Founding Father, land speculator, and politician who signed the U.S. Constitution and served as the first territorial governor of the Southwest Territory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Blount
Target entity description: William Blount was an American Founding Father, land speculator, and politician who signed the U.S. Constitution and served as the first territorial governor of the Southwest Territory.
  • A. Abraham Eustis
    Abraham Eustis was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and artillery commander after whom Fort Eustis in Virginia was named.
  • B. Archibald Roane
    Archibald Roane was an early American politician and jurist who served as the second governor of Tennessee in the early 19th century.
  • C. James Iredell Sr.
    James Iredell Sr. was an influential early American jurist and statesman who served as one of the original Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court and played a key role in shaping constitutional law.
  • D. James Iredell Jr.
    James Iredell Jr. was an American politician who served as the 23rd governor of North Carolina in the early 19th century.
  • E. Samuel Johnston
    Samuel Johnston was an American lawyer, statesman, and early political leader from North Carolina who served as governor of the state and as a U.S. senator after the Revolutionary War.
  • 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_69a88713ddc88190a969715658ebe7a8 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb81f5dac8190b5223fe2d59ee0d4 completed March 7, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae032e1f648190acb502b9f82fe8c2 completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae03b52ed08190a8c8fb8f81073bb3 completed March 8, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0433b90c81909af348d9a3dcdbec completed March 8, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.