Triple

T4721855
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alabama A&M University E104786 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William Hooper Councill
William Hooper Councill was a 19th-century African American educator, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who became a prominent leader in Black higher education in the post-Civil War South.
E464904 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 Hooper Councill | Statement: [Alabama A&M University, founder, William Hooper Councill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hooper Councill
Context triple: [Alabama A&M University, founder, William Hooper Councill]
  • A. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • B. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • C. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • D. Samuel Johnston
    Samuel Johnston was an American lawyer, statesman, and early political leader from North Carolina who served as governor of the state and as a U.S. senator after the Revolutionary War.
  • E. Abraham Eustis
    Abraham Eustis was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and artillery commander after whom Fort Eustis in Virginia was named.
  • 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 Hooper Councill
Triple: [Alabama A&M University, founder, William Hooper Councill]
Generated description
William Hooper Councill was a 19th-century African American educator, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who became a prominent leader in Black higher education in the post-Civil War South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hooper Councill
Target entity description: William Hooper Councill was a 19th-century African American educator, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who became a prominent leader in Black higher education in the post-Civil War South.
  • A. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • B. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • C. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • D. Samuel Johnston
    Samuel Johnston was an American lawyer, statesman, and early political leader from North Carolina who served as governor of the state and as a U.S. senator after the Revolutionary War.
  • E. Abraham Eustis
    Abraham Eustis was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and artillery commander after whom Fort Eustis in Virginia was named.
  • 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_69bd43ed84648190ae0b7ee8e8d00482 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd642b82008190bb70dd60a4149502 completed March 20, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be1094fd9c81909e12723394f9ae0a completed March 21, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be12b1c9088190bb6b307bfc46b75c completed March 21, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be1318d494819084fac7c6d16db4e5 completed March 21, 2026, 3:40 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:18 p.m.