Triple

T23150025
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Mercer Langston E578297 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: John | Statement: [John Mercer Langston, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Mercer Langston, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John J. Pershing, the famed American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John A. Roebling II, an American civil engineer and philanthropist from the prominent Roebling family associated with major bridge construction.
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Williams Walker, an early 19th-century American politician and U.S. Senator from Alabama.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John Mercer Langston, a prominent 19th-century African-American abolitionist, lawyer, and politician.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Wesley Longyear, an American politician and jurist from the 19th century.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Marshall Harlan, a prominent U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential dissents in civil rights cases.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John J. Crittenden, a prominent 19th-century American politician and statesman from Kentucky.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Slidell, a 19th-century American politician and diplomat involved in key events leading up to the U.S. Civil War.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Adams, the second president of the United States and a prominent Founding Father.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69e245fb8de081908f0eba7b5fd75bc4 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18ed0b76c8190ac61b949d88e9970 completed April 29, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:01 p.m.