Triple

T2273058
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Varina Howell Davis E50703 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Howell Davis
William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
E362166 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 Howell Davis | Statement: [Varina Howell Davis, child, William Howell Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howell Davis
Context triple: [Varina Howell Davis, child, William Howell Davis]
  • A. George P. Davis
    George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
  • B. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • C. John M. Dawson
    John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
  • D. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • E. Frank Marshall Davis
    Frank Marshall Davis was an African American poet, journalist, and political activist whose work explored race, class, and social justice in mid-20th-century America.
  • 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 Howell Davis
Triple: [Varina Howell Davis, child, William Howell Davis]
Generated description
William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howell Davis
Target entity description: William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
  • A. George P. Davis
    George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
  • B. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • C. John M. Dawson
    John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
  • D. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • E. Frank Marshall Davis
    Frank Marshall Davis was an African American poet, journalist, and political activist whose work explored race, class, and social justice in mid-20th-century America.
  • 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_69b3737db06481908b854eff532fce18 completed March 13, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b373f5a3108190aea3918190831f7e completed March 13, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3745e11c081909e8d9bc7551d9e81 completed March 13, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.