Triple
T23285519
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Frontier of colonial Virginia |
E588975
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWithPerson |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Walker (explorer) |
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|
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: Thomas Walker (explorer) | Statement: [Frontier of colonial Virginia, associatedWithPerson, Thomas Walker (explorer)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Walker (explorer) Context triple: [Frontier of colonial Virginia, associatedWithPerson, Thomas Walker (explorer)]
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A.
Robert Beverley Jr.
Robert Beverley Jr. was a colonial Virginian planter, politician, and historian best known for writing one of the earliest comprehensive histories of Virginia.
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B.
Alexander Henry
Alexander Henry was a renowned 19th-century Scottish gunmaker and rifling designer whose innovations significantly improved the accuracy and performance of British military rifles.
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C.
Benjamin Boone
Benjamin Boone is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his genre-blending jazz works and collaborations with poets such as U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine.
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D.
Robert Beverley Sr.
Robert Beverley Sr. was a prominent 17th-century Virginia planter, colonial official, and ancestor of the influential Beverley family in early American history.
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E.
Jeremiah Dixon
Jeremiah Dixon was an 18th-century English surveyor and astronomer best known for jointly establishing the Mason–Dixon line that later came to symbolize the cultural boundary between the northern and southern United States.
- 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: Thomas Walker (explorer) Target entity description: Thomas Walker was an 18th-century Virginia physician, land speculator, and explorer best known for leading early expeditions into the Appalachian frontier and helping open the region to colonial expansion.
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A.
Robert Beverley Jr.
Robert Beverley Jr. was a colonial Virginian planter, politician, and historian best known for writing one of the earliest comprehensive histories of Virginia.
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B.
Alexander Henry
Alexander Henry was a renowned 19th-century Scottish gunmaker and rifling designer whose innovations significantly improved the accuracy and performance of British military rifles.
-
C.
Benjamin Boone
Benjamin Boone is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his genre-blending jazz works and collaborations with poets such as U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine.
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D.
Robert Beverley Sr.
Robert Beverley Sr. was a prominent 17th-century Virginia planter, colonial official, and ancestor of the influential Beverley family in early American history.
-
E.
Jeremiah Dixon
Jeremiah Dixon was an 18th-century English surveyor and astronomer best known for jointly establishing the Mason–Dixon line that later came to symbolize the cultural boundary between the northern and southern United States.
- 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_69e25d16e2c08190a291de254703129e |
completed | April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1964600888190b40ecbefdc8aec64 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 5:25 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:59 p.m.