Triple

T7526364
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject First Anglo-Powhatan War E177902 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object John Smith
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and early leader of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, known for his pivotal role in the early years of English settlement in North America.
E51677 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 Smith | Statement: [First Anglo-Powhatan War, commander, John Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith
Context triple: [First Anglo-Powhatan War, commander, John Smith]
  • A. John
    John is the husband of Martha Rainsborough.
  • B. John
    John Seigenthaler was an American journalist, editor, and civil rights advocate best known for his long tenure at The Tennessean and his work promoting First Amendment rights.
  • C. John
    John IV of Portugal was a 17th-century Portuguese king who restored the country's independence from Spain and founded the Braganza dynasty.
  • D. John
    John is the first name of J. Michael Luttig, a prominent American conservative jurist and former federal appellate judge.
  • E. John
    John B. Magruder was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Peninsula Campaign and his flamboyant personality.
  • 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 Smith
Triple: [First Anglo-Powhatan War, commander, John Smith]
Generated description
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and early leader of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, known for his pivotal role in the early years of English settlement in North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith
Target entity description: John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and early leader of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, known for his pivotal role in the early years of English settlement in North America.
  • A. John Smith chosen
    John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
  • B. John Smith
    John Smith is a high-ranking Nazi official in the alternate-history television series "The Man in the High Castle," whose loyalty, ambition, and moral conflicts drive much of the show's central drama.
  • C. John Smith
    John Smith was a 19th-century British officer credited with bringing the Ajanta Caves to modern attention after rediscovering them in 1819.
  • D. John Smith
    John Smith was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Bardeen, the American physicist who uniquely won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • 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_69c69f29bf3081909a146aec7755f185 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f81b431481908214b69c6c8d83bc completed March 27, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c84efebd7081908fd33580b399a39b completed March 28, 2026, 9:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c84ff2ac3881908c6319fcb9b49e52 completed March 28, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c85075fe84819095a3dcf8f5c7c171 completed March 28, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:47 p.m.