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]
  • A. Henry McMaster
    Henry McMaster is an American Republican politician serving as the governor of South Carolina.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • A. Henry McMaster
    Henry McMaster is an American Republican politician serving as the governor of South Carolina.
  • 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.