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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.