Triple

T3808822
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bleeding Kansas crisis E93078 entity
Predicate hasSignificantPerson P2308 FINISHED
Object Preston Brooks
Preston Brooks was a pro-slavery U.S. congressman from South Carolina best known for his 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, an event that inflamed sectional tensions before the Civil War.
E391708 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: Preston Brooks | Statement: [Bleeding Kansas crisis, hasSignificantPerson, Preston Brooks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Preston Brooks
Context triple: [Bleeding Kansas crisis, hasSignificantPerson, Preston Brooks]
  • A. Charles Sumner
    Charles Sumner was a leading Radical Republican senator and fervent abolitionist who championed civil rights and harsh Reconstruction policies toward the former Confederate states after the American Civil War.
  • B. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • C. David Wilmot
    David Wilmot is an Irish actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in productions such as "The Guard," "Ripper Street," and "Calvary."
  • D. Robert Y. Hayne
    Robert Y. Hayne was an American politician and senator from South Carolina known for his strong advocacy of states’ rights and his prominent role in the debates over federal authority in the early 19th century.
  • E. James Dewitt Yancey
    James Dewitt Yancey, better known as J Dilla, was a highly influential American hip-hop producer and rapper renowned for his innovative, soulful, and off-kilter approach to beat-making.
  • 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: Preston Brooks
Triple: [Bleeding Kansas crisis, hasSignificantPerson, Preston Brooks]
Generated description
Preston Brooks was a pro-slavery U.S. congressman from South Carolina best known for his 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, an event that inflamed sectional tensions before the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Preston Brooks
Target entity description: Preston Brooks was a pro-slavery U.S. congressman from South Carolina best known for his 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, an event that inflamed sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • A. Charles Sumner
    Charles Sumner was a leading Radical Republican senator and fervent abolitionist who championed civil rights and harsh Reconstruction policies toward the former Confederate states after the American Civil War.
  • B. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • C. David Wilmot
    David Wilmot is an Irish actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in productions such as "The Guard," "Ripper Street," and "Calvary."
  • D. Robert Y. Hayne
    Robert Y. Hayne was an American politician and senator from South Carolina known for his strong advocacy of states’ rights and his prominent role in the debates over federal authority in the early 19th century.
  • E. James Dewitt Yancey
    James Dewitt Yancey, better known as J Dilla, was a highly influential American hip-hop producer and rapper renowned for his innovative, soulful, and off-kilter approach to beat-making.
  • 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_69aed96a60088190ab1df8390fffc935 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aef90ce3088190b82e8421ce9a4005 completed March 9, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fb30a61c819096325d7f11d22f89 completed March 14, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fbd93b1481909f89d807ef870aa7 completed March 14, 2026, 6:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4ffc51bc08190aef4548a351b5604 completed March 14, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:16 p.m.