Triple

T4786480
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Double-Barreled Cannon E106490 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object John Gilleland
John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
E527775 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: John Gilleland | Statement: [Double-Barreled Cannon, designer, John Gilleland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gilleland
Context triple: [Double-Barreled Cannon, designer, John Gilleland]
  • A. George Davenport
    George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
  • B. William Drinkard
    William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
  • C. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • D. Ellsworth Hoagland
    Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Thomas Fishburn
    Thomas Fishburn was an 18th-century British shipbuilder known for constructing the vessel that later became Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
  • 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: John Gilleland
Triple: [Double-Barreled Cannon, designer, John Gilleland]
Generated description
John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gilleland
Target entity description: John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
  • A. George Davenport
    George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
  • B. William Drinkard
    William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
  • C. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • D. Ellsworth Hoagland
    Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Thomas Fishburn
    Thomas Fishburn was an 18th-century British shipbuilder known for constructing the vessel that later became Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
  • 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_69bd43f4a9588190bf73e20bc27c03cc completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd65d8f9d881909c24340b8dc6a104 completed March 20, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c01f036b7881908a555ff18ca5a9af completed March 22, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c01f6bd35c819084fa0f704c7d78f0 completed March 22, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0204d53bc819097153b73b6490235 completed March 22, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:22 p.m.