Triple
T11214565
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Gill Shorter |
E265399
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas H. Watts |
E654748
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas H. Watts | Statement: [John Gill Shorter, successor, Thomas H. Watts]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas H. Watts Context triple: [John Gill Shorter, successor, Thomas H. Watts]
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A.
Thomas H. Watts
chosen
Thomas H. Watts was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Alabama during the Civil War and later became the state's attorney general.
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B.
Harry M. Wegeforth
Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
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C.
Theodore A. Welton
Theodore A. Welton was a physicist best known for co-formulating the fluctuation–dissipation theorem, a fundamental result in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
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D.
William M. Thomas
William M. Thomas was a prominent local figure associated with Bakersfield, California, for whom Meadows Field Airport was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
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E.
James M. McHaney
James M. McHaney was an American lawyer who served as a chief prosecutor in several post-World War II Nuremberg war crimes trials.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d6aac59460819089b9848b27f57848 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e8d7f47c8190b78c640ff1a01943 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 5:58 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00a4fffa7c81909bcc833b44ddf66f |
completed | May 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:30 p.m.