Triple

T4424011
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit) E95166 entity
Predicate notableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object Dexter M. Ferry
Dexter M. Ferry was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the D.M. Ferry & Co. seed company in Detroit.
E527065 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: Dexter M. Ferry | Statement: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit), notableBurial, Dexter M. Ferry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dexter M. Ferry
Context triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit), notableBurial, Dexter M. Ferry]
  • A. Bradford M. Durfee
    Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • B. William M. Rice
    William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  • C. Charles A. Ferry
    Charles A. Ferry was an American architect best known for designing the historic Yale Bowl football stadium at Yale University.
  • D. Thomas E. Ackerman
    Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
  • E. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • 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: Dexter M. Ferry
Triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit), notableBurial, Dexter M. Ferry]
Generated description
Dexter M. Ferry was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the D.M. Ferry & Co. seed company in Detroit.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dexter M. Ferry
Target entity description: Dexter M. Ferry was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the D.M. Ferry & Co. seed company in Detroit.
  • A. Bradford M. Durfee
    Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • B. William M. Rice
    William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  • C. Charles A. Ferry
    Charles A. Ferry was an American architect best known for designing the historic Yale Bowl football stadium at Yale University.
  • D. Thomas E. Ackerman
    Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
  • E. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554ca5208190ba2661616dcf071c completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bfd42f73b88190bb69bffa6a8b9efe completed March 22, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bfd4b21f3881909c1ba8fb37e6a4e5 completed March 22, 2026, 11:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bfd51d63fc8190a8b229845b1ba933 completed March 22, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.