Triple

T6934561
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island E160521 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object William Sprague III
William Sprague III was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as Governor of Rhode Island and as a United States Senator.
E629027 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 Sprague III | Statement: [Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island, hasNotableBurial, William Sprague III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sprague III
Context triple: [Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island, hasNotableBurial, William Sprague III]
  • A. Grant Withers
    Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • B. William Dandridge
    William Dandridge was a member of the prominent colonial Virginia Dandridge family, known primarily as a relative of Martha Washington through his mother, Frances Jones Dandridge.
  • C. William Humphries
    William Humphries is best known as the father of former NBA player Kris Humphries.
  • D. Benjamin Hammond Haggerty
    Benjamin Hammond Haggerty is an American rapper and songwriter best known by his stage name Macklemore, recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
  • E. Joe Willet
    Joe Willet is a good-natured but somewhat naive young man who appears as one of the central characters in Charles Dickens’s historical novel "Barnaby Rudge."
  • 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 Sprague III
Triple: [Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island, hasNotableBurial, William Sprague III]
Generated description
William Sprague III was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as Governor of Rhode Island and as a United States Senator.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sprague III
Target entity description: William Sprague III was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as Governor of Rhode Island and as a United States Senator.
  • A. Grant Withers
    Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • B. William Dandridge
    William Dandridge was a member of the prominent colonial Virginia Dandridge family, known primarily as a relative of Martha Washington through his mother, Frances Jones Dandridge.
  • C. William Humphries
    William Humphries is best known as the father of former NBA player Kris Humphries.
  • D. Benjamin Hammond Haggerty
    Benjamin Hammond Haggerty is an American rapper and songwriter best known by his stage name Macklemore, recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
  • E. Joe Willet
    Joe Willet is a good-natured but somewhat naive young man who appears as one of the central characters in Charles Dickens’s historical novel "Barnaby Rudge."
  • 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_69c6884e15208190b9e91487eaafcf85 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6da415b1481908d70b92ecd5fd8e6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7514ead808190bff53b49b5f331fb completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7524d677c81909531ba9bb46f2632 completed March 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c752bef2808190843f3cad53aa5702 completed March 28, 2026, 4:02 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:27 p.m.