Triple

T22696218
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Board of Public Works of the District of Columbia E561179 entity
Predicate headOfGovernment P307 FINISHED
Object Alexander Robey Shepherd — 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: Alexander Robey Shepherd | Statement: [Board of Public Works of the District of Columbia, headOfGovernment, Alexander Robey Shepherd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander Robey Shepherd
Context triple: [Board of Public Works of the District of Columbia, headOfGovernment, Alexander Robey Shepherd]
  • A. Alexander Robey Shepherd chosen
    Alexander Robey Shepherd was a powerful 19th-century American politician and businessman best known for serving as the territorial governor of the District of Columbia and spearheading major modernization of Washington, D.C.'s infrastructure.
  • B. Hunter Benedict Shepherd
    Hunter Benedict Shepherd, better known as Ben Shepherd, is an American musician and songwriter best known as the longtime bassist for the rock band Soundgarden.
  • C. Christopher Shea
    Christopher Shea was an American child actor best known for voicing Linus van Pelt in several classic Peanuts animated television specials.
  • D. Timothy Ivory Carpenter
    Timothy Ivory Carpenter is the defendant whose challenge to the warrantless collection of his cell phone location data led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Carpenter v. United States, which expanded Fourth Amendment privacy protections.
  • E. Jonathan Sheffer
    Jonathan Sheffer is an American composer and conductor known for his work on film scores, concert music, and as the founder of the Eos Orchestra.
  • 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_69e2454e615481909c177440be559d2c completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1789e05d88190b9d51bb3f8e3e9d4 completed April 29, 2026, 3:18 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:14 p.m.