Triple

T5990981
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kent Island E133347 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Claiborne
William Claiborne was a 17th-century English colonist and trader in North America, best known for his role in early Chesapeake Bay settlement and his long-running territorial disputes with the Maryland colony.
E562253 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 Claiborne | Statement: [Kent Island, foundedBy, William Claiborne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Claiborne
Context triple: [Kent Island, foundedBy, William Claiborne]
  • A. Robert Carter III
    Robert Carter III was an 18th-century Virginia planter and politician best known for orchestrating one of the largest private emancipations of enslaved people in early American history.
  • B. Francis Fauquier
    Francis Fauquier was an 18th-century British colonial administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and became a prominent figure in the colony’s political and social life.
  • C. Michael Cresap
    Michael Cresap was an 18th-century American frontiersman and militia captain known for his controversial role in early conflicts with Native Americans in the Ohio Valley.
  • D. Lawrence Washington
    Lawrence Washington was a colonial Virginia planter, soldier, and the elder half-brother of George Washington, whose military service and connections helped shape George’s early ambitions.
  • E. Governor William Berkeley
    Governor William Berkeley was the colonial governor of Virginia best known for his autocratic rule, promotion of the tobacco economy, and central role as the establishment leader opposed during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
  • 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 Claiborne
Triple: [Kent Island, foundedBy, William Claiborne]
Generated description
William Claiborne was a 17th-century English colonist and trader in North America, best known for his role in early Chesapeake Bay settlement and his long-running territorial disputes with the Maryland colony.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Claiborne
Target entity description: William Claiborne was a 17th-century English colonist and trader in North America, best known for his role in early Chesapeake Bay settlement and his long-running territorial disputes with the Maryland colony.
  • A. Robert Carter III
    Robert Carter III was an 18th-century Virginia planter and politician best known for orchestrating one of the largest private emancipations of enslaved people in early American history.
  • B. Francis Fauquier
    Francis Fauquier was an 18th-century British colonial administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and became a prominent figure in the colony’s political and social life.
  • C. Michael Cresap
    Michael Cresap was an 18th-century American frontiersman and militia captain known for his controversial role in early conflicts with Native Americans in the Ohio Valley.
  • D. Lawrence Washington
    Lawrence Washington was a colonial Virginia planter, soldier, and the elder half-brother of George Washington, whose military service and connections helped shape George’s early ambitions.
  • E. Governor William Berkeley
    Governor William Berkeley was the colonial governor of Virginia best known for his autocratic rule, promotion of the tobacco economy, and central role as the establishment leader opposed during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
  • 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_69c0087010d081908bb8142342d63330 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c04dc8ab648190beb1bc141796894e completed March 22, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c10861c0bc8190b6290d7363f4264a completed March 23, 2026, 9:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c10c44b6408190be8bc1d96e0db2e4 completed March 23, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c10cd7c1c8819085ec8bee7f42afc4 completed March 23, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:05 p.m.