Triple
T1120793
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gastonia, North Carolina |
E24605
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Gaston
William Gaston was a prominent 19th-century North Carolina jurist and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman and justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
|
E135659
|
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 Gaston | Statement: [Gastonia, North Carolina, namedAfter, William Gaston]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gaston Context triple: [Gastonia, North Carolina, namedAfter, William Gaston]
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A.
Henry McMaster
Henry McMaster is an American Republican politician serving as the governor of South Carolina.
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B.
George Herbert Allen
George Herbert Allen is an American politician and attorney who served as Governor of Virginia and later as a United States Senator.
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C.
John Randolph of Roanoke
John Randolph of Roanoke was an influential early 19th-century American congressman and orator from Virginia, known for his fiery rhetoric, staunch states’ rights advocacy, and idiosyncratic political independence.
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D.
Nelson H. Barbour
Nelson H. Barbour was a 19th-century American Adventist preacher and writer whose prophetic teachings and publications significantly shaped early Bible Student theology and chronology.
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E.
Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon was an influential early American statesman from North Carolina who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as a U.S. Senator, known for his strict Jeffersonian principles and opposition to centralized federal power.
- 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 Gaston Triple: [Gastonia, North Carolina, namedAfter, William Gaston]
Generated description
William Gaston was a prominent 19th-century North Carolina jurist and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman and justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gaston Target entity description: William Gaston was a prominent 19th-century North Carolina jurist and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman and justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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A.
Henry McMaster
Henry McMaster is an American Republican politician serving as the governor of South Carolina.
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B.
George Herbert Allen
George Herbert Allen is an American politician and attorney who served as Governor of Virginia and later as a United States Senator.
-
C.
John Randolph of Roanoke
John Randolph of Roanoke was an influential early 19th-century American congressman and orator from Virginia, known for his fiery rhetoric, staunch states’ rights advocacy, and idiosyncratic political independence.
-
D.
Nelson H. Barbour
Nelson H. Barbour was a 19th-century American Adventist preacher and writer whose prophetic teachings and publications significantly shaped early Bible Student theology and chronology.
-
E.
Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon was an influential early American statesman from North Carolina who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as a U.S. Senator, known for his strict Jeffersonian principles and opposition to centralized federal power.
- 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_69a4940712c88190aa244f3fc6070a65 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bbbe58588190a5ef6346e269d5f3 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac6f0fac0c8190b23a976b495d1701 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:31 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac6fea11408190b84d9fc54d4c4917 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:35 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac70592c5c8190a1f86378ec5f70a9 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:37 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.