Triple

T2273056
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Varina Howell Davis E50703 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Jefferson Davis Jr.
Jefferson Davis Jr. was the son of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell Davis, known primarily for his brief life marked by illness and his family's prominence during and after the American Civil War.
E8936 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: Jefferson Davis Jr. | Statement: [Varina Howell Davis, child, Jefferson Davis Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jefferson Davis Jr.
Context triple: [Varina Howell Davis, child, Jefferson Davis Jr.]
  • A. Jefferson Davis
    Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
  • B. Jefferson C. Davis
    Jefferson C. Davis was a controversial Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a U.S. Army officer involved in various Indian Wars in the American West.
  • C. Leonidas Polk
    Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
  • D. Joseph Rucker Lamar
    Joseph Rucker Lamar was an American lawyer, politician, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1911 until his death in 1916.
  • E. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
    Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was a 19th-century American statesman, jurist, and Confederate veteran who later served as a U.S. congressman, senator, cabinet member, and Supreme Court justice noted for his efforts at national reconciliation after the Civil War.
  • 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: Jefferson Davis Jr.
Triple: [Varina Howell Davis, child, Jefferson Davis Jr.]
Generated description
Jefferson Davis Jr. was the son of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell Davis, known primarily for his brief life marked by illness and his family's prominence during and after the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jefferson Davis Jr.
Target entity description: Jefferson Davis Jr. was the son of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell Davis, known primarily for his brief life marked by illness and his family's prominence during and after the American Civil War.
  • A. Jefferson Davis chosen
    Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
  • B. Jefferson C. Davis
    Jefferson C. Davis was a controversial Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a U.S. Army officer involved in various Indian Wars in the American West.
  • C. Leonidas Polk
    Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
  • D. Joseph Rucker Lamar
    Joseph Rucker Lamar was an American lawyer, politician, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1911 until his death in 1916.
  • E. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
    Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was a 19th-century American statesman, jurist, and Confederate veteran who later served as a U.S. congressman, senator, cabinet member, and Supreme Court justice noted for his efforts at national reconciliation after the Civil War.
  • F. None of above.

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_69aea86ab4cc8190ba2203c09f72aaa6 completed March 9, 2026, 11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeaa6cb58081909a0897d4cb328063 completed March 9, 2026, 11:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeabb6d43481908899080f6ca58101 completed March 9, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.