Triple

T4786524
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tree That Owns Itself E106491 entity
Predicate allegedDeedBy P31290 FINISHED
Object William Henry Jackson
William Henry Jackson was an early 19th-century Athens, Georgia resident and professor who is traditionally credited with deeding ownership of a beloved local oak tree to the tree itself, creating the legend of the "Tree That Owns Itself."
E470121 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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 Henry Jackson | Statement: [Tree That Owns Itself, allegedDeedBy, William Henry Jackson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Jackson
Context triple: [Tree That Owns Itself, allegedDeedBy, William Henry Jackson]
  • A. Nathaniel Curtis
    Nathaniel Curtis is a British actor best known for his role in the acclaimed television drama "It's a Sin."
  • B. Nathaniel Curtis
    Nathaniel Curtis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the classic MGM musical film "The Harvey Girls."
  • C. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • D. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • E. William Jackson Palmer
    William Jackson Palmer was a 19th-century American civil engineer, railroad builder, and philanthropist who played a key role in developing the American West.
  • 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 Henry Jackson
Triple: [Tree That Owns Itself, allegedDeedBy, William Henry Jackson]
Generated description
William Henry Jackson was an early 19th-century Athens, Georgia resident and professor who is traditionally credited with deeding ownership of a beloved local oak tree to the tree itself, creating the legend of the "Tree That Owns Itself."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Jackson
Target entity description: William Henry Jackson was an early 19th-century Athens, Georgia resident and professor who is traditionally credited with deeding ownership of a beloved local oak tree to the tree itself, creating the legend of the "Tree That Owns Itself."
  • A. Nathaniel Curtis
    Nathaniel Curtis is a British actor best known for his role in the acclaimed television drama "It's a Sin."
  • B. Nathaniel Curtis
    Nathaniel Curtis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the classic MGM musical film "The Harvey Girls."
  • C. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • D. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • E. William Jackson Palmer
    William Jackson Palmer was a 19th-century American civil engineer, railroad builder, and philanthropist who played a key role in developing the American West.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: allegedDeedBy
Context triple: [Tree That Owns Itself, allegedDeedBy, William Henry Jackson]
  • A. allegedActor
    Indicates that the subject is claimed or accused to be the actor responsible for a particular action or event, without confirming that the claim is true.
  • B. allegedAgentOf chosen
    Indicates that one entity is claimed or suspected, but not confirmed, to be the agent responsible for an action or event involving another entity.
  • C. allegedStatus
    Indicates that a particular status or condition is claimed or asserted about an entity, but has not been confirmed as true.
  • D. allegedAction
    Indicates that an action is claimed or asserted to have occurred, typically without being proven or confirmed.
  • E. allegedByOpponents
    Indicates that a claim or accusation is made by opponents of the subject.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69be43e01f6c81909ca0121c36d107e9 completed March 21, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be45cc228c8190942280ef3852caf7 completed March 21, 2026, 7:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be467ffd50819090c92df520c91642 completed March 21, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69bd622e1b408190806c15c61519fc74 completed March 20, 2026, 3:05 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:22 p.m.