Triple
T3281032
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
E68871
|
entity |
| Predicate | placeOfBirth |
P1
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Keyser, West Virginia, United States |
E224987
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Keyser, West Virginia, United States | Statement: [Henry Louis Gates Jr., placeOfBirth, Keyser, West Virginia, United States]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Keyser, West Virginia, United States Context triple: [Henry Louis Gates Jr., placeOfBirth, Keyser, West Virginia, United States]
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A.
Keyser, West Virginia
chosen
Keyser, West Virginia is a small city in Mineral County that serves as a regional hub in the Potomac Highlands, known for its proximity to the North Branch Potomac River and as the home of West Virginia University Potomac State College.
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B.
Keystone, West Virginia
Keystone, West Virginia is a small town in southern West Virginia’s coal-mining region, historically tied to the coal industry and the broader Appalachian community.
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C.
Kegley, West Virginia
Kegley, West Virginia is an unincorporated rural community located in southern West Virginia within Mercer County.
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D.
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States, is a small city in north-central West Virginia known as the birthplace of Olympic gold medal–winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton.
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E.
Fairmont, West Virginia
Fairmont, West Virginia is a small city in north-central West Virginia known historically for coal mining and its location amid the Appalachian foothills.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad859c463481909ca4be267336c290 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb032d76c81909c568a4e56d12ce9 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b2e851d2bc8190ba887cd1c81c880d |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.