Triple

T4424018
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit) E95166 entity
Predicate notableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object William C. Maybury
William C. Maybury was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Detroit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E445402 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: William C. Maybury | Statement: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit), notableBurial, William C. Maybury]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Maybury
Context triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit), notableBurial, William C. Maybury]
  • A. George W. Gage
    George W. Gage was a prominent 19th-century Chicago businessman and civic leader after whom Gage Park in Chicago is named.
  • B. Samuel L. M. Barlow
    Samuel L. M. Barlow is a notable individual who shares the surname Barlow and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
  • C. Samuel N. Friedel
    Samuel N. Friedel was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Maryland in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Alexander P. Stewart
    Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
  • E. Michael S. McPherson
    Michael S. McPherson is an American economist and higher education leader known for his scholarship on college access and affordability and for serving in prominent academic and philanthropic roles.
  • 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: William C. Maybury
Triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit), notableBurial, William C. Maybury]
Generated description
William C. Maybury was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Detroit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Maybury
Target entity description: William C. Maybury was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Detroit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. George W. Gage
    George W. Gage was a prominent 19th-century Chicago businessman and civic leader after whom Gage Park in Chicago is named.
  • B. Samuel L. M. Barlow
    Samuel L. M. Barlow is a notable individual who shares the surname Barlow and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
  • C. Samuel N. Friedel
    Samuel N. Friedel was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Maryland in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Alexander P. Stewart
    Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
  • E. Michael S. McPherson
    Michael S. McPherson is an American economist and higher education leader known for his scholarship on college access and affordability and for serving in prominent academic and philanthropic roles.
  • 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_69badb1f4e248190909d29048b91c118 completed March 18, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bb0ae2b4788190869e24f4edcfa681 completed March 18, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bb0b3cc7948190b0fa5afa5bc45a2e completed March 18, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.