Triple

T90786
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject City of Alexandria, Virginia E1823 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John Alexander
John Alexander was a prominent landowner in colonial Virginia whose family holdings encompassed the area that later became the city of Alexandria.
E28000 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 Alexander | Statement: [City of Alexandria, Virginia, namedAfter, John Alexander]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Alexander
Context triple: [City of Alexandria, Virginia, namedAfter, John Alexander]
  • A. Stuart
    Stuart is the royal dynasty that ruled Scotland and later England and Ireland, most famously associated with monarchs such as James I and Charles I.
  • B. Alexander I of Scotland
    Alexander I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots known for consolidating royal authority and supporting ecclesiastical reform.
  • C. Robert the Bruce
    Robert the Bruce was the King of Scots from 1306 to 1329, renowned for leading Scotland to de facto independence from England during the First War of Scottish Independence.
  • D. Edward Strong
    Edward Strong was the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley during the 1960s whose administration became a central focus of student opposition in the Free Speech Movement.
  • E. Christopher
    Christopher is the full given name of Chris Sununu, an American politician who has served as governor of New Hampshire.
  • 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 Alexander
Triple: [City of Alexandria, Virginia, namedAfter, John Alexander]
Generated description
John Alexander was a prominent landowner in colonial Virginia whose family holdings encompassed the area that later became the city of Alexandria.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Alexander
Target entity description: John Alexander was a prominent landowner in colonial Virginia whose family holdings encompassed the area that later became the city of Alexandria.
  • A. Stuart
    Stuart is the royal dynasty that ruled Scotland and later England and Ireland, most famously associated with monarchs such as James I and Charles I.
  • B. Alexander I of Scotland
    Alexander I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots known for consolidating royal authority and supporting ecclesiastical reform.
  • C. Robert the Bruce
    Robert the Bruce was the King of Scots from 1306 to 1329, renowned for leading Scotland to de facto independence from England during the First War of Scottish Independence.
  • D. Edward Strong
    Edward Strong was the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley during the 1960s whose administration became a central focus of student opposition in the Free Speech Movement.
  • E. Christopher
    Christopher is the full given name of Chris Sununu, an American politician who has served as governor of New Hampshire.
  • 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_69a24d1a97dc819094e6c021fe9b05a7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24f6c29888190890caa7872d63ac6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a34761406481908807a9849b747e42 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3487920b081909fe53b5ae50693b9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a348c5dfec8190b4bbe10e5e2ebc12 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:07 a.m.