Triple

T5076479
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Howard Thompson E114408 entity
Predicate educatedAt P5 FINISHED
Object Kansas State Normal School
Kansas State Normal School was a teacher-training institution in Kansas that evolved into a broader public university.
 E492005 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: Kansas State Normal School | Statement: [William Howard Thompson, educatedAt, Kansas State Normal School]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kansas State Normal School
Context triple: [William Howard Thompson, educatedAt, Kansas State Normal School]
  • A. Iowa State Normal School
    Iowa State Normal School was a 19th-century teacher-training institution in Cedar Falls, Iowa, that later evolved into the University of Northern Iowa.
  • B. Northern State Normal School
    Northern State Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
  • C. University of Kansas
    The University of Kansas is a major public research university in Lawrence, Kansas, known for its strong academic programs and storied Jayhawks basketball tradition.
  • D. Illinois State Normal University
    Illinois State Normal University was the original name of Illinois State University, a public institution in Normal, Illinois, that began as a teachers' college.
  • E. Michigan State Normal School
    Michigan State Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Eastern Michigan University.
  • 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: Kansas State Normal School
Triple: [William Howard Thompson, educatedAt, Kansas State Normal School]
Generated description
Kansas State Normal School was a teacher-training institution in Kansas that evolved into a broader public university.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kansas State Normal School
Target entity description: Kansas State Normal School was a teacher-training institution in Kansas that evolved into a broader public university.
  • A. Iowa State Normal School
    Iowa State Normal School was a 19th-century teacher-training institution in Cedar Falls, Iowa, that later evolved into the University of Northern Iowa.
  • B. Northern State Normal School
    Northern State Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
  • C. University of Kansas
    The University of Kansas is a major public research university in Lawrence, Kansas, known for its strong academic programs and storied Jayhawks basketball tradition.
  • D. Illinois State Normal University
    Illinois State Normal University was the original name of Illinois State University, a public institution in Normal, Illinois, that began as a teachers' college.
  • E. Michigan State Normal School
    Michigan State Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Eastern Michigan University.
  • 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_69bd443dbf908190a9401e9c2dc7bd7d completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd74d3b0088190a658864cb120eef4 completed March 20, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beb121fa388190ab3909d20f014b6f completed March 21, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69beb202a8748190b677d7bcd2db66c8 completed March 21, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beb28cf7b881909d40b70a7fff5033 completed March 21, 2026, 3 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:39 p.m.