Triple
T22275534
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | North Carolina Central University |
E550592
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entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
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FINISHED |
| Object | James Edward Shepard |
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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: James Edward Shepard | Statement: [North Carolina Central University, founder, James Edward Shepard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Edward Shepard Context triple: [North Carolina Central University, founder, James Edward Shepard]
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A.
James Edward Shepard
chosen
James Edward Shepard was an American educator and founder of North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s historically Black universities.
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B.
James Shepherd
James Shepherd was an American philanthropist and advocate for people with spinal cord and brain injuries, best known for co-founding the Shepherd Center, a leading rehabilitation hospital in Atlanta.
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C.
Isaiah Edwards
Isaiah Edwards is a rugged, kind-hearted frontiersman and close family friend of the Ingalls in the "Little House on the Prairie" series.
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D.
James Staniford
James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
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E.
William Eldridge
William Eldridge is a person notable enough to be recognized as a primary bearer of the surname Eldridge, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established.
- 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_69e11e43d8208190aff4f9cf7f2c2a8a |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f14ea7ebbc8190948e8994e988adb3 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 12:19 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:40 p.m.