Triple

T8529476
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philemon Dickerson E201904 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Mahlon Dickerson
Mahlon Dickerson was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
E912292 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: Mahlon Dickerson | Statement: [Philemon Dickerson, relative, Mahlon Dickerson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mahlon Dickerson
Context triple: [Philemon Dickerson, relative, Mahlon Dickerson]
  • A. Burley Mitchell
    Burley Mitchell is a former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and a prominent American jurist.
  • 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. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • E. Mahlon Sweet
    Mahlon Sweet was a prominent local aviation advocate and civic leader in Eugene, Oregon, whose efforts were instrumental in establishing the city’s municipal airport.
  • 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: Mahlon Dickerson
Triple: [Philemon Dickerson, relative, Mahlon Dickerson]
Generated description
Mahlon Dickerson was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mahlon Dickerson
Target entity description: Mahlon Dickerson was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
  • A. Burley Mitchell
    Burley Mitchell is a former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and a prominent American jurist.
  • 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. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • E. Mahlon Sweet
    Mahlon Sweet was a prominent local aviation advocate and civic leader in Eugene, Oregon, whose efforts were instrumental in establishing the city’s municipal airport.
  • 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_69ca83228b24819085d22e7dc99f5d94 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe67409f08190b20d13d26e9a362c completed March 31, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4aca16a10819097bb8655c8c1a36d completed April 19, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4afa531e0819097587675198bb8a1 completed April 19, 2026, 10:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4b1f68c8c819096d58ac02d76ec0d completed April 19, 2026, 10:44 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:17 p.m.