Triple

T8354876
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Military Governor of California E196658 entity
Predicate firstHolder P291 FINISHED
Object Persifor F. Smith
Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
 E746593 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: Persifor F. Smith | Statement: [Military Governor of California, firstHolder, Persifor F. Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Persifor F. Smith
Context triple: [Military Governor of California, firstHolder, Persifor F. Smith]
  • A. Augustus W. Robins
    Augustus W. Robins was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of the city of Warner Robins, Georgia.
  • B. Jeptha H. Wade
    Jeptha H. Wade was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist best known as a founder of Western Union and a key civic benefactor in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • C. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • D. Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • E. Lafayette C. Baker
    Lafayette C. Baker was a Union spy and detective who served as chief of the National Detective Police during the American Civil War and played a key role in the capture of John Wilkes Booth.
  • 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: Persifor F. Smith
Triple: [Military Governor of California, firstHolder, Persifor F. Smith]
Generated description
Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Persifor F. Smith
Target entity description: Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
  • A. Augustus W. Robins
    Augustus W. Robins was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of the city of Warner Robins, Georgia.
  • B. Jeptha H. Wade
    Jeptha H. Wade was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist best known as a founder of Western Union and a key civic benefactor in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • C. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • D. Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • E. Lafayette C. Baker
    Lafayette C. Baker was a Union spy and detective who served as chief of the National Detective Police during the American Civil War and played a key role in the capture of John Wilkes Booth.
  • 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_69ca82f08b348190bfb7881944bbff6f completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb8048edb88190a1980ad74818b898 completed March 31, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cebb37161081908452cc449b4e903e completed April 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cebda8e7f4819083b6885f874554f1 completed April 2, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cebe5df4888190bf741e332af3e21e completed April 2, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:59 p.m.