Triple

T4677866
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vance County, North Carolina E103724 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Zebulon Baird Vance
Zebulon Baird Vance was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as a Confederate military officer, multiple-term governor of the state, and later as a U.S. senator.
E460400 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: Zebulon Baird Vance | Statement: [Vance County, North Carolina, namedAfter, Zebulon Baird Vance]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zebulon Baird Vance
Context triple: [Vance County, North Carolina, namedAfter, Zebulon Baird Vance]
  • A. John Ridge
    John Ridge was a prominent 19th-century Cherokee leader and diplomat known for his controversial role in negotiating the Treaty of New Echota, which led to the Cherokee removal along the Trail of Tears.
  • B. Henry A. Wise
    Henry A. Wise was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and U.S. congressman, known for his influential role in antebellum Southern politics.
  • C. Nathaniel Macon
    Nathaniel Macon was an influential early American statesman from North Carolina who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as a U.S. Senator, known for his strict Jeffersonian principles and opposition to centralized federal power.
  • D. Henry J. Toombs
    Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
  • E. Shelton Jackson Lee
    Shelton Jackson Lee, better known as Spike Lee, is an influential American filmmaker, producer, and actor renowned for his provocative, socially conscious films exploring race, politics, and urban life.
  • 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: Zebulon Baird Vance
Triple: [Vance County, North Carolina, namedAfter, Zebulon Baird Vance]
Generated description
Zebulon Baird Vance was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as a Confederate military officer, multiple-term governor of the state, and later as a U.S. senator.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zebulon Baird Vance
Target entity description: Zebulon Baird Vance was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as a Confederate military officer, multiple-term governor of the state, and later as a U.S. senator.
  • A. John Ridge
    John Ridge was a prominent 19th-century Cherokee leader and diplomat known for his controversial role in negotiating the Treaty of New Echota, which led to the Cherokee removal along the Trail of Tears.
  • B. Henry A. Wise
    Henry A. Wise was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and U.S. congressman, known for his influential role in antebellum Southern politics.
  • C. Nathaniel Macon
    Nathaniel Macon was an influential early American statesman from North Carolina who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as a U.S. Senator, known for his strict Jeffersonian principles and opposition to centralized federal power.
  • D. Henry J. Toombs
    Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
  • E. Shelton Jackson Lee
    Shelton Jackson Lee, better known as Spike Lee, is an influential American filmmaker, producer, and actor renowned for his provocative, socially conscious films exploring race, politics, and urban life.
  • 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_69bd43dda32c8190938b37744ca270fc completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd63698a548190831863adddd32f31 completed March 20, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be03a0d5c88190a9b40e1ca7d165ff completed March 21, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be04f8aeac81909ec199c83af6df39 completed March 21, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be05608ee08190acf947144998660c completed March 21, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:16 p.m.