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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.