Triple

T11929436
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lumberton, North Carolina E283871 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Willis
John Willis was an early settler and community leader credited with establishing the town that became Lumberton, North Carolina.
 E982639 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: John Willis | Statement: [Lumberton, North Carolina, foundedBy, John Willis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Willis
Context triple: [Lumberton, North Carolina, foundedBy, John Willis]
  • A. John Willis
    John Willis was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
  • B. Nat Willis
    Nat Willis is known primarily as the husband of British-American actress Andrea King.
  • C. Ben Willis
    Ben Willis is the hook-wielding serial killer known as the Fisherman, the central slasher villain in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" horror film series.
  • D. John Wilkie
    John Wilkie was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play "The School for Scandal."
  • E. Joe Willis
    Joe Willis is an American professional soccer goalkeeper in Major League Soccer who has been recognized as one of the league’s top performers at his position.
  • 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: John Willis
Triple: [Lumberton, North Carolina, foundedBy, John Willis]
Generated description
John Willis was an early settler and community leader credited with establishing the town that became Lumberton, North Carolina.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Willis
Target entity description: John Willis was an early settler and community leader credited with establishing the town that became Lumberton, North Carolina.
  • A. John Willis
    John Willis was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
  • B. Nat Willis
    Nat Willis is known primarily as the husband of British-American actress Andrea King.
  • C. Ben Willis
    Ben Willis is the hook-wielding serial killer known as the Fisherman, the central slasher villain in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" horror film series.
  • D. John Wilkie
    John Wilkie was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play "The School for Scandal."
  • E. Joe Willis
    Joe Willis is an American professional soccer goalkeeper in Major League Soccer who has been recognized as one of the league’s top performers at his position.
  • 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_69d6ab2ce9c48190b5d39511b524f666 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d90303a9a88190a4044e6310ba9b4b completed April 10, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6344f8ee88190aae2b0052f296e19 completed May 2, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f63674aa3c81908ba82a9d246b3b3a completed May 2, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f63a9b32fc8190ab98492ff91d2a66 completed May 2, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.