Triple

T8895292
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Black Mountain College E211791 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Andrew Rice
John Andrew Rice was an American educator and progressive education advocate best known as the visionary founder and first rector of the experimental Black Mountain College.
E833242 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: John Andrew Rice | Statement: [Black Mountain College, foundedBy, John Andrew Rice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Andrew Rice
Context triple: [Black Mountain College, foundedBy, John Andrew Rice]
  • A. James Edward Rice
    James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • B. James R. Rice
    James R. Rice is a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician renowned for his foundational contributions to fracture mechanics and solid mechanics.
  • C. William M. Rice
    William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  • D. Richard Rice
    Richard Rice was a key figure associated with the founding or development of the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, honored by having the institution bear his name.
  • E. John Randolph Tucker
    John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
  • 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: John Andrew Rice
Triple: [Black Mountain College, foundedBy, John Andrew Rice]
Generated description
John Andrew Rice was an American educator and progressive education advocate best known as the visionary founder and first rector of the experimental Black Mountain College.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Andrew Rice
Target entity description: John Andrew Rice was an American educator and progressive education advocate best known as the visionary founder and first rector of the experimental Black Mountain College.
  • A. James Edward Rice
    James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • B. James R. Rice
    James R. Rice is a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician renowned for his foundational contributions to fracture mechanics and solid mechanics.
  • C. William M. Rice
    William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  • D. Richard Rice
    Richard Rice was a key figure associated with the founding or development of the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, honored by having the institution bear his name.
  • E. John Randolph Tucker
    John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
  • 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_69ca83918d3081909b326fa3750cb8c8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc61be2c2081908f39cccdc149872d completed April 1, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2571ac8ec8190bf59c2cec5e2e6e2 completed April 5, 2026, 12:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d25889b0f08190a28c5401417fe3cc completed April 5, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d25977ab988190969ed8ff8eb53ddd completed April 5, 2026, 12:45 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:54 p.m.