Triple

T3940889
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Francis Fauquier E92030 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object John Blair Sr.
John Blair Sr. was an influential 18th-century Virginia colonial politician and jurist who served on the Governor's Council and briefly acted as governor.
E399557 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 Blair Sr. | Statement: [Francis Fauquier, predecessor, John Blair Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Blair Sr.
Context triple: [Francis Fauquier, predecessor, John Blair Sr.]
  • A. William Grayson
    William Grayson was an American Revolutionary War officer, early U.S. senator from Virginia, and prominent Anti-Federalist critic of the proposed U.S. Constitution.
  • B. Charles Carroll of Annapolis
    Charles Carroll of Annapolis was a prominent Maryland planter, lawyer, and colonial politician who played a key role in the colony’s elite society and was the father of Founding Father Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
  • C. William B. Franklin
    William B. Franklin was a Union major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key campaigns and his controversial role in the Army of the Potomac.
  • D. Charles Carroll of Carrollton
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a prominent Maryland planter, lawyer, and statesman who became the only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and later served as a U.S. senator.
  • E. George Wythe
    George Wythe was an American Founding Father, renowned legal scholar, and early law professor who mentored leaders like Thomas Jefferson and helped shape the emerging nation’s legal and constitutional foundations.
  • 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 Blair Sr.
Triple: [Francis Fauquier, predecessor, John Blair Sr.]
Generated description
John Blair Sr. was an influential 18th-century Virginia colonial politician and jurist who served on the Governor's Council and briefly acted as governor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Blair Sr.
Target entity description: John Blair Sr. was an influential 18th-century Virginia colonial politician and jurist who served on the Governor's Council and briefly acted as governor.
  • A. William Grayson
    William Grayson was an American Revolutionary War officer, early U.S. senator from Virginia, and prominent Anti-Federalist critic of the proposed U.S. Constitution.
  • B. Charles Carroll of Annapolis
    Charles Carroll of Annapolis was a prominent Maryland planter, lawyer, and colonial politician who played a key role in the colony’s elite society and was the father of Founding Father Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
  • C. William B. Franklin
    William B. Franklin was a Union major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key campaigns and his controversial role in the Army of the Potomac.
  • D. Charles Carroll of Carrollton
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a prominent Maryland planter, lawyer, and statesman who became the only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and later served as a U.S. senator.
  • E. George Wythe
    George Wythe was an American Founding Father, renowned legal scholar, and early law professor who mentored leaders like Thomas Jefferson and helped shape the emerging nation’s legal and constitutional foundations.
  • 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_69aed965502c8190904ebad1203a4ae8 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeedfc88e4819084adefb695b975c5 completed March 9, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b52894cb94819099d023745fcaebbc completed March 14, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5293c3a0c8190abe1924ecc12dc46 completed March 14, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b529f6a3488190a7a9ae37f71cff56 completed March 14, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:24 p.m.