Triple

T916024
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Declaration House E19772 entity
Predicate tenant P75 FINISHED
Object Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings
Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings was an enslaved man from the prominent Hemings family at Monticello who attended Jefferson in Philadelphia during the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.
E108367 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: Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings | Statement: [Declaration House, tenant, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings
Context triple: [Declaration House, tenant, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings]
  • A. Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
    Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was an American planter's daughter who became the wife of future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and served as the mistress of Monticello until her death in 1782.
  • B. Varina Howell Davis
    Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
  • C. Thomas Fuller
    Thomas Fuller was a 19th-century Canadian-born architect best known for designing major public buildings in North America, including prominent government structures.
  • D. George Washington Parke Custis
    George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
  • E. Martha Washington
    Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
  • 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: Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings
Triple: [Declaration House, tenant, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings]
Generated description
Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings was an enslaved man from the prominent Hemings family at Monticello who attended Jefferson in Philadelphia during the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings
Target entity description: Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings was an enslaved man from the prominent Hemings family at Monticello who attended Jefferson in Philadelphia during the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.
  • A. Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
    Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was an American planter's daughter who became the wife of future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and served as the mistress of Monticello until her death in 1782.
  • B. Varina Howell Davis
    Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
  • C. Thomas Fuller
    Thomas Fuller was a 19th-century Canadian-born architect best known for designing major public buildings in North America, including prominent government structures.
  • D. George Washington Parke Custis
    George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
  • E. Martha Washington
    Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2f789108190815fd1efbd6cc24f completed March 1, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7cf6062e48190ad7efca6da7d0445 completed March 4, 2026, 6:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7cfd126f48190bff81a9c2d3781f0 completed March 4, 2026, 6:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7d05886c081909e6453d766540720 completed March 4, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.