Triple
T22212579
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Blackie Towery |
E548989
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William C. Towery |
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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: William C. Towery | Statement: [Blackie Towery, birthName, William C. Towery]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Towery Context triple: [Blackie Towery, birthName, William C. Towery]
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A.
William C. Towery
chosen
William C. "Blackie" Towery was an American professional basketball player known for his career in the National Basketball League during the 1940s.
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B.
Charles B. Gatewood
Charles B. Gatewood was a U.S. Army officer best known for his pivotal role in persuading the Apache leader Geronimo to surrender in 1886, effectively ending the Apache Wars.
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C.
William R. Poage
William R. Poage was a long-serving Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas known for his influential role in agricultural policy and leadership on the House Agriculture Committee.
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D.
William E. Hunt
William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
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E.
William H. Hunt
William H. Hunt was a 19th-century American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and played a key role in modernizing the Navy’s institutions and intelligence capabilities.
- 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_69e11e3f7e04819089806d81d5ac431e |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f12b2c8b608190b0047af4ac91b023 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:48 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:36 p.m.