Triple
T7588269
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sally Hemings |
E179669
|
entity |
| Predicate | freedChildren |
P78009
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Eston Hemings |
E681264
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Eston Hemings | Statement: [Sally Hemings, freedChildren, Eston Hemings]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eston Hemings Context triple: [Sally Hemings, freedChildren, Eston Hemings]
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A.
Eston Hemings
chosen
Eston Hemings was the youngest son of Sally Hemings, widely believed to be fathered by Thomas Jefferson, who later became a free man, musician, and community leader in Ohio and Wisconsin.
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B.
Madison Hemings
Madison Hemings was the son of Sally Hemings and, by most historical accounts, Thomas Jefferson, known for his 1873 memoir detailing life at Monticello and his family’s lineage.
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C.
Beverly Hemings
Beverly Hemings was one of the mixed-race children of Sally Hemings, historically associated with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the broader Hemings-Jefferson family legacy.
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D.
Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by Thomas Jefferson, widely believed to have had a long-term intimate relationship and several children with him at Monticello.
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E.
Harriet Hemings
Harriet Hemings was the mixed-race daughter of enslaved woman Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, who later left Monticello and is believed to have passed into white society.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c69f335248819093c1006f30513708 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c701731a288190b53ffc546a2f47d7 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 10:15 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c8c7b042c8819098e345be61bbe943 |
completed | March 29, 2026, 6:33 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:52 p.m.