Triple

T8139715
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Drayton family E190060 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object William Henry Drayton
William Henry Drayton was an American lawyer and South Carolina statesman who became a prominent Patriot leader and a signer of the Articles of Confederation during the American Revolution.
E724961 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: William Henry Drayton | Statement: [Drayton family, member, William Henry Drayton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Drayton
Context triple: [Drayton family, member, William Henry Drayton]
  • A. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • B. William Ragsdale
    William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Belton
    William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
  • E. Charles Mawhood
    Charles Mawhood was a British Army officer best known for leading Crown forces against George Washington’s troops during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Princeton.
  • 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: William Henry Drayton
Triple: [Drayton family, member, William Henry Drayton]
Generated description
William Henry Drayton was an American lawyer and South Carolina statesman who became a prominent Patriot leader and a signer of the Articles of Confederation during the American Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Drayton
Target entity description: William Henry Drayton was an American lawyer and South Carolina statesman who became a prominent Patriot leader and a signer of the Articles of Confederation during the American Revolution.
  • A. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • B. William Ragsdale
    William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Belton
    William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
  • E. Charles Mawhood
    Charles Mawhood was a British Army officer best known for leading Crown forces against George Washington’s troops during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Princeton.
  • 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_69ca82bd9900819099477cdc2eb4244f completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb4404e5308190a323485701f09d86 completed March 31, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd949f48d48190b6b908c01ae49ee4 completed April 1, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cda62070888190b55b3f54d29e28e7 completed April 1, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdb21a65d88190a19dd41f95d173c8 completed April 2, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:35 p.m.