Triple

T1101721
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Herold E24394 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object David Edgar Herold
David Edgar Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who aided in the escape after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and was later executed for his role in the conspiracy.
E156030 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: David Edgar Herold | Statement: [David Herold, fullName, David Edgar Herold]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Edgar Herold
Context triple: [David Herold, fullName, David Edgar Herold]
  • A. Henry Hess
    Henry Hess was a notable figure in whose honor the Henry Hess Award was established, recognizing significant contributions in his field.
  • B. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • C. Harold F. Gosnell
    Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
  • D. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt
    Haroldson Lafayette Hunt was a powerful American oil tycoon and political influencer who became one of the wealthiest individuals in the United States during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Henry Lawrence
    Henry Lawrence was a British colonial administrator and soldier in India, best known for his leadership and death during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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: David Edgar Herold
Triple: [David Herold, fullName, David Edgar Herold]
Generated description
David Edgar Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who aided in the escape after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and was later executed for his role in the conspiracy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Edgar Herold
Target entity description: David Edgar Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who aided in the escape after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and was later executed for his role in the conspiracy.
  • A. Henry Hess
    Henry Hess was a notable figure in whose honor the Henry Hess Award was established, recognizing significant contributions in his field.
  • B. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • C. Harold F. Gosnell
    Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
  • D. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt
    Haroldson Lafayette Hunt was a powerful American oil tycoon and political influencer who became one of the wealthiest individuals in the United States during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Henry Lawrence
    Henry Lawrence was a British colonial administrator and soldier in India, best known for his leadership and death during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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_69a4940542308190ac2a0b1f730b7cfc completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b9c21c2c8190a34d91a7afed23a9 completed March 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acce55b5748190b54b8205a735ae89 completed March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69accf47541481909f2032cdf8e4272b completed March 8, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69accff8af488190a7580cf7c02ceed9 completed March 8, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.