Triple

T5643114
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Louis Stars E124315 entity
Predicate owner P347 FINISHED
Object Samuel Sheppard
Samuel Sheppard was a baseball team owner best known for his role in operating the Negro league franchise the St. Louis Stars.
E537253 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: Samuel Sheppard | Statement: [St. Louis Stars, owner, Samuel Sheppard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Sheppard
Context triple: [St. Louis Stars, owner, Samuel Sheppard]
  • A. Samuel Todd
    Samuel Todd was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Todd family of Kentucky, which included his sister Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • B. Samuel Dixon
    Samuel Dixon is a British songwriter, record producer, and bassist known for his work with artists such as Adele, Sia, and Christina Aguilera.
  • C. Henry Smith
    Henry Smith was an early Texas political leader who served as the first American-born governor during the Texas Revolution.
  • D. Charles Mawhood
    Charles Mawhood was a British Army officer best known for leading Crown forces against George Washington’s troops during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Princeton.
  • E. Henry Baldwin
    Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
  • 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: Samuel Sheppard
Triple: [St. Louis Stars, owner, Samuel Sheppard]
Generated description
Samuel Sheppard was a baseball team owner best known for his role in operating the Negro league franchise the St. Louis Stars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Sheppard
Target entity description: Samuel Sheppard was a baseball team owner best known for his role in operating the Negro league franchise the St. Louis Stars.
  • A. Samuel Todd
    Samuel Todd was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Todd family of Kentucky, which included his sister Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • B. Samuel Dixon
    Samuel Dixon is a British songwriter, record producer, and bassist known for his work with artists such as Adele, Sia, and Christina Aguilera.
  • C. Henry Smith
    Henry Smith was an early Texas political leader who served as the first American-born governor during the Texas Revolution.
  • D. Charles Mawhood
    Charles Mawhood was a British Army officer best known for leading Crown forces against George Washington’s troops during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Princeton.
  • E. Henry Baldwin
    Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
  • 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_69c00824643c81909ffdb888a2d35189 completed March 22, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c022a7cd9c819087f86f60e8b65fc3 completed March 22, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d7c98008190b79528596eca4208 completed March 22, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04edbf1f081908d74d0ac29601a35 completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f7e64c88190bbced2f2460c1913 completed March 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:41 p.m.