Triple

T20216131

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Peabody Education Fund	`E495128`	entity
Predicate	boardMember	`P8802`	FINISHED
Object	William C. Rives	`—`	NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 C. Rives | Statement: [Peabody Education Fund, boardMember, William C. Rives]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: William C. Rives
Context triple: [Peabody Education Fund, boardMember, William C. Rives]

A. James B. Merryman
James B. Merryman is a film and concert director known for his work on major music-related projects, including Beyoncé’s concert film "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé."
B. William Bellinger Bulloch
William Bellinger Bulloch was an American politician and lawyer from Georgia who served as a U.S. Senator and held several important public offices in the early 19th century.
C. Charles P. Cabell
Charles P. Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
D. Lazarus W. Powell
Lazarus W. Powell was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Kentucky and later as a U.S. senator.
E. Persifor F. Smith
Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: William C. Rives
Target entity description: William C. Rives was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and lawyer from Virginia who served in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and as U.S. Minister to France.

A. James B. Merryman
James B. Merryman is a film and concert director known for his work on major music-related projects, including Beyoncé’s concert film "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé."
B. William Bellinger Bulloch
William Bellinger Bulloch was an American politician and lawyer from Georgia who served as a U.S. Senator and held several important public offices in the early 19th century.
C. Charles P. Cabell
Charles P. Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
D. Lazarus W. Powell
Lazarus W. Powell was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Kentucky and later as a U.S. senator.
E. Persifor F. Smith
Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
F. None of above. chosen

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_69da626cff80819097b530718a7c98b6`	completed	April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e66ed8cc8c8190889ecadc702010d8`	completed	April 20, 2026, 6:22 p.m.

Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:38 p.m.