Triple

T12780271
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Berrien County, Michigan E305487 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John M. Berrien
John M. Berrien was a prominent early 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Andrew Jackson.
 E1003420 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 M. Berrien | Statement: [Berrien County, Michigan, namedAfter, John M. Berrien]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John M. Berrien
Context triple: [Berrien County, Michigan, namedAfter, John M. Berrien]
  • A. William W. Bibb
    William W. Bibb was an American physician and politician who became the first governor of the state of Alabama after previously serving as a U.S. congressman and senator from Georgia.
  • B. Samuel D. Ingham
    Samuel D. Ingham was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.
  • C. Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • D. Zephaniah Platt
    Zephaniah Platt was an American lawyer, politician, and landowner who founded the city of Plattsburgh, New York in the late 18th century.
  • E. John Bidwell
    John Bidwell was a 19th-century American pioneer, politician, and philanthropist who helped lead the first overland emigrant party to California and later founded the city of Chico.
  • 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 M. Berrien
Triple: [Berrien County, Michigan, namedAfter, John M. Berrien]
Generated description
John M. Berrien was a prominent early 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Andrew Jackson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John M. Berrien
Target entity description: John M. Berrien was a prominent early 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Andrew Jackson.
  • A. William W. Bibb
    William W. Bibb was an American physician and politician who became the first governor of the state of Alabama after previously serving as a U.S. congressman and senator from Georgia.
  • B. Samuel D. Ingham
    Samuel D. Ingham was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.
  • C. Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • D. Zephaniah Platt
    Zephaniah Platt was an American lawyer, politician, and landowner who founded the city of Plattsburgh, New York in the late 18th century.
  • E. John Bidwell
    John Bidwell was a 19th-century American pioneer, politician, and philanthropist who helped lead the first overland emigrant party to California and later founded the city of Chico.
  • 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e5a5680819095dcd491486d23e7 completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f685030cbc8190856bf5254e231d25 completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f685dc63f48190bb68f9859e99e3b4 completed May 2, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68a92226881909600555332c2c370 completed May 2, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.