Triple
T7628478
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Durbin, West Virginia |
E172697
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Senator Charles Durbin (railroad official)?
Senator Charles Durbin was a railroad official after whom the community of Durbin, West Virginia, was named.
|
E678692
|
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: Senator Charles Durbin (railroad official)? | Statement: [Durbin, West Virginia, namedAfter, Senator Charles Durbin (railroad official)?]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Senator Charles Durbin (railroad official)? Context triple: [Durbin, West Virginia, namedAfter, Senator Charles Durbin (railroad official)?]
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A.
Pennsylvania Railroad’s Senator
Pennsylvania Railroad’s Senator was a premier passenger train that operated between Washington, D.C., and Boston, serving as a flagship Northeast Corridor service in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Dirksen
Dirksen is a surname most notably associated with Everett Dirksen, a prominent mid-20th-century American politician and U.S. Senate Minority Leader.
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C.
Key Pittman
Key Pittman was a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from Nevada who became a powerful figure in foreign policy and Senate leadership in the early 20th century.
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D.
Bernie Dodd
Bernie Dodd is a driven Broadway director in the film "The Country Girl," whose demanding methods and personal struggles shape the story’s central drama.
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E.
Representative Wydler
Representative Wydler was a U.S. Congressman known for his legislative service in the House of Representatives.
- 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: Senator Charles Durbin (railroad official)? Triple: [Durbin, West Virginia, namedAfter, Senator Charles Durbin (railroad official)?]
Generated description
Senator Charles Durbin was a railroad official after whom the community of Durbin, West Virginia, was named.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Senator Charles Durbin (railroad official)? Target entity description: Senator Charles Durbin was a railroad official after whom the community of Durbin, West Virginia, was named.
-
A.
Pennsylvania Railroad’s Senator
Pennsylvania Railroad’s Senator was a premier passenger train that operated between Washington, D.C., and Boston, serving as a flagship Northeast Corridor service in the mid-20th century.
-
B.
Dirksen
Dirksen is a surname most notably associated with Everett Dirksen, a prominent mid-20th-century American politician and U.S. Senate Minority Leader.
-
C.
Key Pittman
Key Pittman was a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from Nevada who became a powerful figure in foreign policy and Senate leadership in the early 20th century.
-
D.
Bernie Dodd
Bernie Dodd is a driven Broadway director in the film "The Country Girl," whose demanding methods and personal struggles shape the story’s central drama.
-
E.
Representative Wydler
Representative Wydler was a U.S. Congressman known for his legislative service in the House of Representatives.
- 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_69c699517e348190bd3348b6889200f2 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6fa831f508190ab2f72326cdf4497 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c870af222481909e341eebb78664d6 |
completed | March 29, 2026, 12:22 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c8723391f48190b60ba8952c9ccca7 |
completed | March 29, 2026, 12:28 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c87401aaa48190b3e44298fcd3f37f |
completed | March 29, 2026, 12:36 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:56 p.m.