Triple
T4909922
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | College of William & Mary |
E110205
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Blair |
E110205
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: James Blair | Statement: [College of William & Mary, founder, James Blair]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Blair Context triple: [College of William & Mary, founder, James Blair]
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A.
James Blair
chosen
James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman and educator best known as the founder and first president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
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B.
John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe was a 19th-century American lawyer, inventor, and author known for his role in promoting the B&O Railroad and for his contributions to Maryland’s legal and cultural life.
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C.
Henry Wheaton
Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
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D.
Melancton Smith
Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
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E.
George Whitmore
George Whitmore was an American climber best known as a member of the team that made the pioneering first ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan in 1958.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd44132b94819088522d92beaadc78 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6e99414081908c3d3283f563bba4 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:58 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be6fe43a888190ab1b150da0f49203 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:16 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:29 p.m.