Triple

T4605426
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boring, Oregon E100420 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William H. Boring
William H. Boring was an American Union Army veteran and early settler in Oregon whose name was given to the community of Boring, Oregon.
 E896373 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 H. Boring | Statement: [Boring, Oregon, namedAfter, William H. Boring]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William H. Boring
Context triple: [Boring, Oregon, namedAfter, William H. Boring]
  • A. William A. Boring
    William A. Boring was an American architect best known for co-designing the main immigration station buildings on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
  • B. Frederick P. Hamlin
    Frederick P. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or distinguished bearer of the surname Hamlin.
  • C. William L. Harkness
    William L. Harkness was an American businessman and philanthropist associated with Yale University, for which he endowed facilities that now bear his name.
  • D. Donald W. Sherburne
    Donald W. Sherburne was an American philosopher and prominent interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy.
  • E. Henry A. Walke
    Henry A. Walke was a United States Navy officer noted for his distinguished service during the 19th century, particularly in the American Civil War.
  • 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 H. Boring
Triple: [Boring, Oregon, namedAfter, William H. Boring]
Generated description
William H. Boring was an American Union Army veteran and early settler in Oregon whose name was given to the community of Boring, Oregon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William H. Boring
Target entity description: William H. Boring was an American Union Army veteran and early settler in Oregon whose name was given to the community of Boring, Oregon.
  • A. William A. Boring
    William A. Boring was an American architect best known for co-designing the main immigration station buildings on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
  • B. Frederick P. Hamlin
    Frederick P. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or distinguished bearer of the surname Hamlin.
  • C. William L. Harkness
    William L. Harkness was an American businessman and philanthropist associated with Yale University, for which he endowed facilities that now bear his name.
  • D. Donald W. Sherburne
    Donald W. Sherburne was an American philosopher and prominent interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy.
  • E. Henry A. Walke
    Henry A. Walke was a United States Navy officer noted for his distinguished service during the 19th century, particularly in the American Civil War.
  • 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_69bd43cce1e08190a07d53af6a9b6c24 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd599b1f0881909fd693b81ff44f98 completed March 20, 2026, 2:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e2d62cce008190ae269bbd289625a0 completed April 18, 2026, 12:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e2fab58f588190ae2d33f32e71333b completed April 18, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e317809c0881909e793db965194014 completed April 18, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.