Triple

T383214
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shorter E8724 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Gill Shorter
John Gill Shorter was an American politician who served as the Governor of Alabama for the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
E49610 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: John Gill Shorter | Statement: [Shorter, hasNotableBearer, John Gill Shorter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gill Shorter
Context triple: [Shorter, hasNotableBearer, John Gill Shorter]
  • A. George Reynolds
    George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
  • B. John Luther
    John Luther is a brilliant but tormented London detective from the British crime drama series "Luther," known for his obsessive pursuit of justice and morally ambiguous methods.
  • C. Moses Taylor
    Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
  • D. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • E. Samuel Church
    Samuel Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," recognized for his significance among people with that family name.
  • 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: John Gill Shorter
Triple: [Shorter, hasNotableBearer, John Gill Shorter]
Generated description
John Gill Shorter was an American politician who served as the Governor of Alabama for the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gill Shorter
Target entity description: John Gill Shorter was an American politician who served as the Governor of Alabama for the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
  • A. George Reynolds
    George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
  • B. John Luther
    John Luther is a brilliant but tormented London detective from the British crime drama series "Luther," known for his obsessive pursuit of justice and morally ambiguous methods.
  • C. Moses Taylor
    Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
  • D. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • E. Samuel Church
    Samuel Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," recognized for his significance among people with that family name.
  • 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_69a2e7f47dd08190a4e294ccbbe46cd4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec40ff8c81909306eb2dfe1512af completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a405f431d48190b83e2eaa2fe0e587 completed March 1, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4068c6b708190b8f06efedc6ba2c6 completed March 1, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a406d581888190a0380f362a844089 completed March 1, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.