Triple

T2273051
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Varina Howell Davis E50703 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William Burr Howell
William Burr Howell was an American banker and the father of Varina Howell Davis, the wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
E270168 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 Burr Howell | Statement: [Varina Howell Davis, father, William Burr Howell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Burr Howell
Context triple: [Varina Howell Davis, father, William Burr Howell]
  • A. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • B. Horace White
    Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Henry McCullough
    Henry McCullough was a Northern Irish guitarist and singer best known for his work with Paul McCartney and Wings, as well as his contributions to Joe Cocker’s Grease Band and various solo projects.
  • D. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • E. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • 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 Burr Howell
Triple: [Varina Howell Davis, father, William Burr Howell]
Generated description
William Burr Howell was an American banker and the father of Varina Howell Davis, the wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Burr Howell
Target entity description: William Burr Howell was an American banker and the father of Varina Howell Davis, the wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
  • A. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • B. Horace White
    Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Henry McCullough
    Henry McCullough was a Northern Irish guitarist and singer best known for his work with Paul McCartney and Wings, as well as his contributions to Joe Cocker’s Grease Band and various solo projects.
  • D. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • E. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1e872448190a1d6c6071b2a294b completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af17695e6481908bb7e4848a5ffc09 completed March 9, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af1a0749148190bb23911440a8ee1e completed March 9, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af1a6c684481909458c26e18f0cf3a completed March 9, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.