Triple

T938179
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Topeka Cemetery E20244 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object William Howard Thompson
William Howard Thompson was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas in the early 20th century.
E114408 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 Howard Thompson | Statement: [Topeka Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, William Howard Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howard Thompson
Context triple: [Topeka Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, William Howard Thompson]
  • A. Hartland Snyder
    Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
  • B. James R. Thompson
    James R. Thompson was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the long-time governor of Illinois and later sat on the 9/11 Commission.
  • C. Richard J. Daley
    Richard J. Daley was the powerful mid-20th-century mayor of Chicago and a dominant Democratic political boss known for his control of the city’s political machine and resistance to civil rights activism.
  • D. Al Smith
    Al Smith was an American politician and four-term New York governor who became the first Roman Catholic major-party nominee for U.S. president in 1928.
  • E. Daniel Hoan
    Daniel Hoan was a prominent American socialist politician who served as the long-time mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and became known for his progressive municipal reforms and efficient, corruption-free administration.
  • 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 Howard Thompson
Triple: [Topeka Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, William Howard Thompson]
Generated description
William Howard Thompson was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howard Thompson
Target entity description: William Howard Thompson was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas in the early 20th century.
  • A. Hartland Snyder
    Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
  • B. James R. Thompson
    James R. Thompson was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the long-time governor of Illinois and later sat on the 9/11 Commission.
  • C. Richard J. Daley
    Richard J. Daley was the powerful mid-20th-century mayor of Chicago and a dominant Democratic political boss known for his control of the city’s political machine and resistance to civil rights activism.
  • D. Al Smith
    Al Smith was an American politician and four-term New York governor who became the first Roman Catholic major-party nominee for U.S. president in 1928.
  • E. Daniel Hoan
    Daniel Hoan was a prominent American socialist politician who served as the long-time mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and became known for his progressive municipal reforms and efficient, corruption-free administration.
  • 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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b388f0bc8190a087222636135ba5 completed March 1, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac16fdd37c81909262c1cc271cdd21 completed March 7, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac176e56fc819093e45a57ed40eeef completed March 7, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac182b59a08190a6656fc55d9683cb completed March 7, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.