Triple

T6934562
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island E160521 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object William Sprague IV
William Sprague IV was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as both governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. senator during and after the Civil War.
 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 IV | Statement: [Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island, hasNotableBurial, William Sprague IV]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Sprague IV
Context triple: [Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island, hasNotableBurial, William Sprague IV]
  • A. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. William Humphries
    William Humphries is best known as the father of former NBA player Kris Humphries.
  • E. J. B. Fuqua
    J. B. Fuqua was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to education, including endowing Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
  • 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 IV
Triple: [Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island, hasNotableBurial, William Sprague IV]
Generated description
William Sprague IV was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as both governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. senator during and after the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Sprague IV
Target entity description: William Sprague IV was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as both governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. senator during and after the Civil War.
  • A. William Sprague III chosen
    William Sprague III was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as Governor of Rhode Island and as a United States Senator.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. William Humphries
    William Humphries is best known as the father of former NBA player Kris Humphries.
  • E. J. B. Fuqua
    J. B. Fuqua was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to education, including endowing Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c7585e45448190accdddcbb4bd69ed completed March 28, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c75c442adc819092fe283ec28bb254 completed March 28, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c75d450ea88190b10d6d2ff7e04765 completed March 28, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:27 p.m.