Triple

T7149844
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hillsborough Convention of 1788 E166664 entity
Predicate notableAntiFederalistDelegate P75136 FINISHED
Object Samuel Spencer
Samuel Spencer was a prominent North Carolina jurist and Revolutionary-era political leader known for his influential Anti-Federalist stance during debates over the U.S. Constitution.
 E645091 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Samuel Spencer | Statement: [Hillsborough Convention of 1788, notableAntiFederalistDelegate, Samuel Spencer]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Samuel Spencer
Context triple: [Hillsborough Convention of 1788, notableAntiFederalistDelegate, Samuel Spencer]
  • A. Samuel Spencer
    Samuel Spencer was an American railroad executive best known as the first president and a key organizer of the Southern Railway in the late 19th century.
  • B. Samuel Lester
    Samuel Lester is the full given name of Les Snead, the American football executive best known as the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams.
  • C. Samuel Black
    Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
  • D. Samuel Russell
    Samuel Russell was an architect known for designing the Middlesex Guildhall in London, a notable example of early 20th-century civic architecture.
  • E. Samuel Murray
    Samuel Murray was an American sculptor known for his public monuments and portrait statues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Samuel Spencer
Target entity description: Samuel Spencer was a prominent North Carolina jurist and Revolutionary-era political leader known for his influential Anti-Federalist stance during debates over the U.S. Constitution.
  • A. Samuel Spencer
    Samuel Spencer was an American railroad executive best known as the first president and a key organizer of the Southern Railway in the late 19th century.
  • B. Samuel Lester
    Samuel Lester is the full given name of Les Snead, the American football executive best known as the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams.
  • C. Samuel Black
    Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
  • D. Samuel Russell
    Samuel Russell was an architect known for designing the Middlesex Guildhall in London, a notable example of early 20th-century civic architecture.
  • E. Samuel Murray
    Samuel Murray was an American sculptor known for his public monuments and portrait statues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

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: Samuel Spencer
Triple: [Hillsborough Convention of 1788, notableAntiFederalistDelegate, Samuel Spencer]
Generated description
Samuel Spencer was a prominent North Carolina jurist and Revolutionary-era political leader known for his influential Anti-Federalist stance during debates over the U.S. Constitution.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69c68886779c8190a8e3fbabffe68253 elicitation completed
NER batch_69c6e7f130e08190bc5ca99f90f9de92 ner completed
NED1 batch_69c7ada940e08190b16e97e363801e75 ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_69c7aeb68c3481909c6dff8ee51349ab ned_description completed
NEDg batch_69c7ae5767408190860c1c7bc3a769fa nedg completed
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:46 p.m.