Triple

T9113716
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Ford E218667 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object William Prince Ford
William Prince Ford was a 19th-century Louisiana plantation owner and Baptist minister best known as the first enslaver of Solomon Northup, whose memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" recounts Ford's role in his captivity.
E779281 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 Prince Ford | Statement: [William Ford, basedOn, William Prince Ford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Prince Ford
Context triple: [William Ford, basedOn, William Prince Ford]
  • A. Edsel Ford
    Edsel Ford was an American business executive and the only son of Henry Ford, best known for serving as president of the Ford Motor Company during the early 20th century.
  • B. Steven Meigs Ford
    Steven Meigs Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
  • C. Benson Ford
    Benson Ford was an American businessman and prominent member of the Ford family who held executive roles at Ford Motor Company in the mid-20th century.
  • D. William Clay Ford Sr.
    William Clay Ford Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Ford family who owned the Detroit Lions and held various leadership roles within the Ford Motor Company.
  • E. Thomas Ford
    Thomas Ford was an American politician who served as the eighth governor of Illinois from 1842 to 1846.
  • 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 Prince Ford
Triple: [William Ford, basedOn, William Prince Ford]
Generated description
William Prince Ford was a 19th-century Louisiana plantation owner and Baptist minister best known as the first enslaver of Solomon Northup, whose memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" recounts Ford's role in his captivity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Prince Ford
Target entity description: William Prince Ford was a 19th-century Louisiana plantation owner and Baptist minister best known as the first enslaver of Solomon Northup, whose memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" recounts Ford's role in his captivity.
  • A. Edsel Ford
    Edsel Ford was an American business executive and the only son of Henry Ford, best known for serving as president of the Ford Motor Company during the early 20th century.
  • B. Steven Meigs Ford
    Steven Meigs Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
  • C. Benson Ford
    Benson Ford was an American businessman and prominent member of the Ford family who held executive roles at Ford Motor Company in the mid-20th century.
  • D. William Clay Ford Sr.
    William Clay Ford Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Ford family who owned the Detroit Lions and held various leadership roles within the Ford Motor Company.
  • E. Thomas Ford
    Thomas Ford was an American politician who served as the eighth governor of Illinois from 1842 to 1846.
  • 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_69ca83dc94ac8190b9ef42684d36ff39 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca84b0a048190964f560f78e27cce completed April 1, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0305eb6e081908edba0ddab25e209 completed April 3, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d032eb2e708190b2d265ad7b49d084 completed April 3, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0337057048190af062152688599a1 completed April 3, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:16 p.m.