Triple

T6216193
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) E138993 entity
Predicate hasBurial P196 FINISHED
Object John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston was a pioneering African American abolitionist, lawyer, educator, and politician who became one of the first Black men elected to public office in the United States and served as a U.S. congressman from Virginia.
E578297 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: John Mercer Langston | Statement: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.), hasBurial, John Mercer Langston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Mercer Langston
Context triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.), hasBurial, John Mercer Langston]
  • A. Charles Remond Douglass
    Charles Remond Douglass was an African American civil rights activist, soldier, and government clerk, and the youngest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
  • B. Lewis Henry Douglass
    Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Henry Chandlee Turner
    Henry Chandlee Turner was an American builder and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the major construction firm Turner Construction Company.
  • D. Sumner W. Jackson
    Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
  • E. J. Parnell Thomas
    J. Parnell Thomas was a conservative Republican congressman from New Jersey best known for chairing the House Un-American Activities Committee during the early Cold War era.
  • 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: John Mercer Langston
Triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.), hasBurial, John Mercer Langston]
Generated description
John Mercer Langston was a pioneering African American abolitionist, lawyer, educator, and politician who became one of the first Black men elected to public office in the United States and served as a U.S. congressman from Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Mercer Langston
Target entity description: John Mercer Langston was a pioneering African American abolitionist, lawyer, educator, and politician who became one of the first Black men elected to public office in the United States and served as a U.S. congressman from Virginia.
  • A. Charles Remond Douglass
    Charles Remond Douglass was an African American civil rights activist, soldier, and government clerk, and the youngest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
  • B. Lewis Henry Douglass
    Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Henry Chandlee Turner
    Henry Chandlee Turner was an American builder and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the major construction firm Turner Construction Company.
  • D. Sumner W. Jackson
    Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
  • E. J. Parnell Thomas
    J. Parnell Thomas was a conservative Republican congressman from New Jersey best known for chairing the House Un-American Activities Committee during the early Cold War era.
  • 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_69c008aecb0c81909984b48f733ce8ae completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c062a1eb3881908c7f735cf9c429ce completed March 22, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c20dacf1788190a655c39bd248fde8 completed March 24, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c2141927288190bad4ec024997a45e completed March 24, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c214d7f2d08190bd6dab4da08c97dc completed March 24, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:21 p.m.