Triple

T7191681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colton E167706 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object David Douty Colton
David Douty Colton was a 19th-century American railroad executive and politician associated with the Central Pacific Railroad and California development.
E648295 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: David Douty Colton | Statement: [Colton, namedAfter, David Douty Colton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Douty Colton
Context triple: [Colton, namedAfter, David Douty Colton]
  • A. David Daggett
    David Daggett was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from Connecticut who co-founded Yale Law School and served as a U.S. senator and chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
  • B. Osborne Colson
    Osborne Colson was a prominent Canadian figure skating coach and former national champion known for mentoring several elite skaters.
  • C. Jeremiah Jones Colbath
    Jeremiah Jones Colbath was the original name of Henry Wilson, a 19th-century American politician who became Vice President of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
  • D. William Drinkard
    William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
  • E. James Henry Darlington
    James Henry Darlington was an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Diocese of Harrisburg in the early 20th century.
  • 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: David Douty Colton
Triple: [Colton, namedAfter, David Douty Colton]
Generated description
David Douty Colton was a 19th-century American railroad executive and politician associated with the Central Pacific Railroad and California development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Douty Colton
Target entity description: David Douty Colton was a 19th-century American railroad executive and politician associated with the Central Pacific Railroad and California development.
  • A. David Daggett
    David Daggett was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from Connecticut who co-founded Yale Law School and served as a U.S. senator and chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
  • B. Osborne Colson
    Osborne Colson was a prominent Canadian figure skating coach and former national champion known for mentoring several elite skaters.
  • C. Jeremiah Jones Colbath
    Jeremiah Jones Colbath was the original name of Henry Wilson, a 19th-century American politician who became Vice President of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
  • D. William Drinkard
    William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
  • E. James Henry Darlington
    James Henry Darlington was an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Diocese of Harrisburg in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69c6888b5248819090499a884ee3ec39 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e901ea1481908a9e44f96dd4b553 completed March 27, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7bf95a1a0819099d252f037c318c7 completed March 28, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7c071778881909a82eedf61cae22b completed March 28, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7c111e05c8190a9cfba3fca1f8198 completed March 28, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.