Triple

T5297058
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donner Party E119880 entity
Predicate leader P981 FINISHED
Object James F. Reed
James F. Reed was an Irish-American pioneer and businessman best known as a leading organizer and central figure in the ill-fated Donner Party expedition to California in 1846–47.
 E524820 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: James F. Reed | Statement: [Donner Party, leader, James F. Reed]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James F. Reed
Context triple: [Donner Party, leader, James F. Reed]
  • A. Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • B. Jesse G. Vincent
    Jesse G. Vincent is a software developer best known for creating the RT issue tracking system and contributing extensively to open-source projects.
  • C. Benjamin W. S. Cabell
    Benjamin W. S. Cabell was a 19th-century American figure best known as the father of Confederate general and Dallas mayor William L. Cabell.
  • D. Henry B. Carrington
    Henry B. Carrington was a U.S. Army officer and frontier commander best known for leading forces during Red Cloud's War in the 1860s.
  • E. James G. Birney
    James G. Birney was a 19th-century American abolitionist, politician, and former slaveholder who became a leading anti-slavery advocate and presidential candidate.
  • 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: James F. Reed
Triple: [Donner Party, leader, James F. Reed]
Generated description
James F. Reed was an Irish-American pioneer and businessman best known as a leading organizer and central figure in the ill-fated Donner Party expedition to California in 1846–47.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James F. Reed
Target entity description: James F. Reed was an Irish-American pioneer and businessman best known as a leading organizer and central figure in the ill-fated Donner Party expedition to California in 1846–47.
  • A. Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • B. Jesse G. Vincent
    Jesse G. Vincent is a software developer best known for creating the RT issue tracking system and contributing extensively to open-source projects.
  • C. Benjamin W. S. Cabell
    Benjamin W. S. Cabell was a 19th-century American figure best known as the father of Confederate general and Dallas mayor William L. Cabell.
  • D. Henry B. Carrington
    Henry B. Carrington was a U.S. Army officer and frontier commander best known for leading forces during Red Cloud's War in the 1860s.
  • E. James G. Birney
    James G. Birney was a 19th-century American abolitionist, politician, and former slaveholder who became a leading anti-slavery advocate and presidential candidate.
  • 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_69bd446f22b88190b6a47fb91c68a3e7 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd85053e3c8190b28648056d6c5710 completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf7fd0a2c48190ba0c2e3259c3691f completed March 22, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf80e2f34081909bcc695e1b91e3ef completed March 22, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf813985d881908801f1eee573c220 completed March 22, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.