Triple

T8316451
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Swan Point Cemetery E194716 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object William Sprague IV
William Sprague IV was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as both governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. senator during and after the Civil War.
 E725653 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 Sprague IV | Statement: [Swan Point Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, William Sprague IV]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Sprague IV
Context triple: [Swan Point Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, William Sprague IV]
  • A. William Sprague III
    William Sprague III was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as Governor of Rhode Island and as a United States Senator.
  • B. William Dandridge
    William Dandridge was a member of the prominent colonial Virginia Dandridge family, known primarily as a relative of Martha Washington through his mother, Frances Jones Dandridge.
  • C. Grant Withers
    Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • D. William Humphries
    William Humphries is best known as the father of former NBA player Kris Humphries.
  • E. Joseph Alston
    Joseph Alston was an American politician and planter who served as governor of South Carolina in the early 19th 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: William Sprague IV
Triple: [Swan Point Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, William Sprague IV]
Generated description
William Sprague IV was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as both governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. senator during and after the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Sprague IV
Target entity description: William Sprague IV was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as both governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. senator during and after the Civil War.
  • A. William Sprague III
    William Sprague III was a 19th-century American politician and industrialist who served as Governor of Rhode Island and as a United States Senator.
  • B. William Dandridge
    William Dandridge was a member of the prominent colonial Virginia Dandridge family, known primarily as a relative of Martha Washington through his mother, Frances Jones Dandridge.
  • C. Grant Withers
    Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • D. William Humphries
    William Humphries is best known as the father of former NBA player Kris Humphries.
  • E. Joseph Alston
    Joseph Alston was an American politician and planter who served as governor of South Carolina in the early 19th 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_69ca82e6e2648190a31eaf6f4f757b2a completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7f557a7881908adcf353f7297848 completed March 31, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd958cf0808190af59e36c35b91e58 completed April 1, 2026, 10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdab5d649c819098a7643d5a0b7827 completed April 1, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdb2c2e2248190bf52466abaebfe29 completed April 2, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:55 p.m.