Triple

T5953174
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward Alexander Bouchet E132445 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William Francis Bouchet
William Francis Bouchet was the father of pioneering African American physicist Edward Alexander Bouchet, who became one of the first Black recipients of a Ph.D. in the United States.
E561975 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: William Francis Bouchet | Statement: [Edward Alexander Bouchet, father, William Francis Bouchet]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Francis Bouchet
Context triple: [Edward Alexander Bouchet, father, William Francis Bouchet]
  • A. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
    Freeman A. Hrabowski III is an American educator and longtime president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, renowned for his leadership in promoting STEM education and success among underrepresented minority students.
  • B. Edward Alexander Bouchet
    Edward Alexander Bouchet was a pioneering African American physicist who became the first Black person in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in physics, receiving his doctorate from Yale University in 1876.
  • C. George W. McLaurin
    George W. McLaurin was an African American educator whose challenge to segregated graduate education led to a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision weakening the legal basis of “separate but equal” in higher education.
  • D. Heman Marion Sweatt
    Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American civil rights figure whose challenge to racial segregation in higher education led to the landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
  • E. Bernard Lafayette
    Bernard Lafayette is an American civil rights activist and leader known for his prominent role in the 1960s nonviolent movement, including organizing Freedom Rides and voter registration campaigns in the South.
  • 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: William Francis Bouchet
Triple: [Edward Alexander Bouchet, father, William Francis Bouchet]
Generated description
William Francis Bouchet was the father of pioneering African American physicist Edward Alexander Bouchet, who became one of the first Black recipients of a Ph.D. in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Francis Bouchet
Target entity description: William Francis Bouchet was the father of pioneering African American physicist Edward Alexander Bouchet, who became one of the first Black recipients of a Ph.D. in the United States.
  • A. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
    Freeman A. Hrabowski III is an American educator and longtime president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, renowned for his leadership in promoting STEM education and success among underrepresented minority students.
  • B. Edward Alexander Bouchet
    Edward Alexander Bouchet was a pioneering African American physicist who became the first Black person in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in physics, receiving his doctorate from Yale University in 1876.
  • C. George W. McLaurin
    George W. McLaurin was an African American educator whose challenge to segregated graduate education led to a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision weakening the legal basis of “separate but equal” in higher education.
  • D. Heman Marion Sweatt
    Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American civil rights figure whose challenge to racial segregation in higher education led to the landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
  • E. Bernard Lafayette
    Bernard Lafayette is an American civil rights activist and leader known for his prominent role in the 1960s nonviolent movement, including organizing Freedom Rides and voter registration campaigns in the South.
  • 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_69c0086b05cc8190a8f36a96927a525c completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c039bef5c8819093f280b235a593b0 completed March 22, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1082d00308190a8e92bb633e7f292 completed March 23, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c10a15b9e08190be8b559e467d1d8c completed March 23, 2026, 9:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c10aaf299481909d0e824a126381e3 completed March 23, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:02 p.m.