Triple
T386843
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Colony and Dominion of Virginia |
E8796
|
entity |
| Predicate | notablePerson |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Smith
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
|
E51677
|
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 Smith | Statement: [Colony and Dominion of Virginia, notablePerson, John Smith]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith Context triple: [Colony and Dominion of Virginia, notablePerson, John Smith]
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A.
John
John is the given name of John Hancock, a prominent American statesman and patriot best known for his large signature on the United States Declaration of Independence.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Bardeen, the American physicist who uniquely won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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C.
John
John is the given name of the 19th-century British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill, a key figure in liberal thought and utilitarianism.
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D.
John
John was a medieval English monarch who ruled as King John of England from 1199 to 1216 and is best known for sealing the Magna Carta.
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E.
John
John is the given first name of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving and influential first director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
- 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 Smith Triple: [Colony and Dominion of Virginia, notablePerson, John Smith]
Generated description
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith Target entity description: John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
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A.
John
John is the given name of John Bardeen, the American physicist who uniquely won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
-
B.
John
John is the given name of the 19th-century British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill, a key figure in liberal thought and utilitarianism.
-
C.
John
John is the given name of John Hancock, a prominent American statesman and patriot best known for his large signature on the United States Declaration of Independence.
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D.
John
John was a medieval English monarch who ruled as King John of England from 1199 to 1216 and is best known for sealing the Magna Carta.
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E.
John
John is the given first name of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving and influential first director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
- 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_69a2ec447b5481908a5a084787b44ced |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a4177149008190a4b7b252e21dcb09 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:39 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a41834c510819093a9405a0bea297a |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:43 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a4188888ec8190b9dc3efb93bfe627 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:44 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.