Triple

T10632297
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Whitley County, Indiana E250487 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Whitley
William Whitley was an early American frontiersman and pioneer whose legacy in settling and defending the frontier led to places such as Whitley County, Indiana being named in his honor.
E896454 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 Whitley | Statement: [Whitley County, Indiana, namedAfter, William Whitley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Whitley
Context triple: [Whitley County, Indiana, namedAfter, William Whitley]
  • A. Henry D. Whitfield
    Henry D. Whitfield was an architect known for designing the Hawaii State Library, contributing to early 20th-century public architecture in the United States.
  • B. George Wilkins
    George Wilkins is a relatively obscure historical figure known primarily for being the brother of British architect William Wilkins.
  • C. John Randolph Tucker
    John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
  • D. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • E. Boyd Tinsley
    Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
  • 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 Whitley
Triple: [Whitley County, Indiana, namedAfter, William Whitley]
Generated description
William Whitley was an early American frontiersman and pioneer whose legacy in settling and defending the frontier led to places such as Whitley County, Indiana being named in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Whitley
Target entity description: William Whitley was an early American frontiersman and pioneer whose legacy in settling and defending the frontier led to places such as Whitley County, Indiana being named in his honor.
  • A. Henry D. Whitfield
    Henry D. Whitfield was an architect known for designing the Hawaii State Library, contributing to early 20th-century public architecture in the United States.
  • B. George Wilkins
    George Wilkins is a relatively obscure historical figure known primarily for being the brother of British architect William Wilkins.
  • C. John Randolph Tucker
    John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
  • D. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • E. Boyd Tinsley
    Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
  • 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_69d6aa5993448190a493b790b8f85010 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6df95f5e88190b34ce3ec972759ef completed April 8, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e2d65fc0948190af4356fc9f5004bb completed April 18, 2026, 12:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e2ff1ddd2c8190b31f5007f7492a4e completed April 18, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3260494bc81909e3dd4829697fb72 completed April 18, 2026, 6:34 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:02 p.m.