Triple

T8965511
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joel Aldrich Matteson E214119 entity
Predicate replacedBy P101 FINISHED
Object William Henry Bissell
William Henry Bissell was an American politician who served as the 11th governor of Illinois and was the first Republican elected to that office.
E825676 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 Bissell | Statement: [Joel Aldrich Matteson, replacedBy, William Henry Bissell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Bissell
Context triple: [Joel Aldrich Matteson, replacedBy, William Henry Bissell]
  • A. Charles H. Mason
    Charles H. Mason was an early American politician who served as the first Secretary of Washington Territory in the mid-19th century.
  • B. Gustavus W. Smith
    Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • C. William Wallace Smith Bliss
    William Wallace Smith Bliss was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and accomplished mathematician who served as a staff officer in the Mexican–American War and as son-in-law and aide to President Zachary Taylor.
  • D. Henry B. Walthall
    Henry B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his leading role in D.W. Griffith’s landmark and controversial film "The Birth of a Nation."
  • E. Henry D. Stratton
    Henry D. Stratton was a 19th-century American educator and co-founder of the Bryant & Stratton chain of business colleges, which later evolved into institutions such as Rider University.
  • 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 Bissell
Triple: [Joel Aldrich Matteson, replacedBy, William Henry Bissell]
Generated description
William Henry Bissell was an American politician who served as the 11th governor of Illinois and was the first Republican elected to that office.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Bissell
Target entity description: William Henry Bissell was an American politician who served as the 11th governor of Illinois and was the first Republican elected to that office.
  • A. Charles H. Mason
    Charles H. Mason was an early American politician who served as the first Secretary of Washington Territory in the mid-19th century.
  • B. Gustavus W. Smith
    Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • C. William Wallace Smith Bliss
    William Wallace Smith Bliss was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and accomplished mathematician who served as a staff officer in the Mexican–American War and as son-in-law and aide to President Zachary Taylor.
  • D. Henry B. Walthall
    Henry B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his leading role in D.W. Griffith’s landmark and controversial film "The Birth of a Nation."
  • E. Henry D. Stratton
    Henry D. Stratton was a 19th-century American educator and co-founder of the Bryant & Stratton chain of business colleges, which later evolved into institutions such as Rider University.
  • 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_69ca839cd6008190a1546a701a56710c completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc67623818819096aee155a9b43e8f completed April 1, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1e3d6191c8190adb41feec1bfa76e completed April 5, 2026, 4:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1e5204f748190b1f56ee5469828a2 completed April 5, 2026, 4:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1e598243481909278cb3c911ce3db completed April 5, 2026, 4:31 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:01 p.m.