Triple

T4997147
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bacon Academy E112275 entity
Predicate hasAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Lafayette S. Foster
Lafayette S. Foster was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut and briefly as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Civil War era.
E669561 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: Lafayette S. Foster | Statement: [Bacon Academy, hasAlumnus, Lafayette S. Foster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lafayette S. Foster
Context triple: [Bacon Academy, hasAlumnus, Lafayette S. Foster]
  • A. Lafayette C. Baker
    Lafayette C. Baker was a Union spy and detective who served as chief of the National Detective Police during the American Civil War and played a key role in the capture of John Wilkes Booth.
  • B. Francis B. Burch
    Francis B. Burch was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Maryland in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Jesse E. Moorland
    Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
  • D. George J. Folsey
    George J. Folsey was an American cinematographer renowned for his lush, expressive visual style in classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
  • E. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Lafayette S. Foster
Triple: [Bacon Academy, hasAlumnus, Lafayette S. Foster]
Generated description
Lafayette S. Foster was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut and briefly as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Civil War era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lafayette S. Foster
Target entity description: Lafayette S. Foster was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut and briefly as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Civil War era.
  • A. Lafayette C. Baker
    Lafayette C. Baker was a Union spy and detective who served as chief of the National Detective Police during the American Civil War and played a key role in the capture of John Wilkes Booth.
  • B. Francis B. Burch
    Francis B. Burch was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Maryland in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Jesse E. Moorland
    Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
  • D. George J. Folsey
    George J. Folsey was an American cinematographer renowned for his lush, expressive visual style in classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
  • E. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69bd4432b32c81909f3b3c6bd10f0653 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd72a130708190b9bc1393ba78bfb1 completed March 20, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c845c232188190a3391ce5159f49bb completed March 28, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c846d0b1348190bc2bf23e75c535a9 completed March 28, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c84748b8988190b4f85c253ea9e403 completed March 28, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:34 p.m.