Triple

T10080001
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Van Ness Avenue E213874 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object James Van Ness
James Van Ness was a 19th-century American politician who served as mayor of San Francisco and for whom the city's major thoroughfare Van Ness Avenue is named.
E848537 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: James Van Ness | Statement: [Van Ness Avenue, namedAfter, James Van Ness]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Van Ness
Context triple: [Van Ness Avenue, namedAfter, James Van Ness]
  • A. John Van Ness
    John Van Ness was an early 19th-century American politician and public figure associated with the development and civic life of Washington, D.C.
  • B. Joseph Bancroft
    Joseph Bancroft was an Australian physician and parasitologist known for his pioneering work on filarial worms, including the species later named Wuchereria bancrofti in his honor.
  • C. Nathaniel Folsom
    Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
  • D. David Daggett
    David Daggett was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from Connecticut who co-founded Yale Law School and served as a U.S. senator and chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
  • E. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • 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: James Van Ness
Triple: [Van Ness Avenue, namedAfter, James Van Ness]
Generated description
James Van Ness was a 19th-century American politician who served as mayor of San Francisco and for whom the city's major thoroughfare Van Ness Avenue is named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Van Ness
Target entity description: James Van Ness was a 19th-century American politician who served as mayor of San Francisco and for whom the city's major thoroughfare Van Ness Avenue is named.
  • A. John Van Ness
    John Van Ness was an early 19th-century American politician and public figure associated with the development and civic life of Washington, D.C.
  • B. Joseph Bancroft
    Joseph Bancroft was an Australian physician and parasitologist known for his pioneering work on filarial worms, including the species later named Wuchereria bancrofti in his honor.
  • C. Nathaniel Folsom
    Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
  • D. David Daggett
    David Daggett was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from Connecticut who co-founded Yale Law School and served as a U.S. senator and chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
  • E. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • 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_69ca839bf730819086900c323c9b8c95 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd031ce748190bb71189afd331979 completed April 2, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d3697d5b008190b274a086172c7a7d completed April 6, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d37540b60c8190a52b03c57b4e3708 completed April 6, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d3763948188190a47f48076fc767cb completed April 6, 2026, 9 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9 p.m.