Triple

T13412633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McCook County, South Dakota E320127 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Edwin Stanton McCook
Edwin Stanton McCook was an American Civil War officer and prominent member of the influential "Fighting McCook" family who later served as a politician and territorial governor.
E1205575 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: Edwin Stanton McCook | Statement: [McCook County, South Dakota, namedAfter, Edwin Stanton McCook]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Stanton McCook
Context triple: [McCook County, South Dakota, namedAfter, Edwin Stanton McCook]
  • A. Amos T. Akerman
    Amos T. Akerman was a Reconstruction-era U.S. Attorney General known for vigorously enforcing civil rights laws and prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan under President Ulysses S. Grant.
  • B. Lyman G. Bloomingdale
    Lyman G. Bloomingdale was an American businessman and co-founder of the iconic Bloomingdale’s department store, which became a landmark in New York City retail.
  • C. George T. Wood
    George T. Wood was a 19th-century American politician who served as the second governor of Texas.
  • D. Thomas C. Ely
    Thomas C. Ely is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership within the Episcopal Church, including service as a diocesan bishop in the Upper Midwest.
  • E. Benjamin F. Blodgett
    Benjamin F. Blodgett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Blodgett surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements appears limited.
  • 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: Edwin Stanton McCook
Triple: [McCook County, South Dakota, namedAfter, Edwin Stanton McCook]
Generated description
Edwin Stanton McCook was an American Civil War officer and prominent member of the influential "Fighting McCook" family who later served as a politician and territorial governor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Stanton McCook
Target entity description: Edwin Stanton McCook was an American Civil War officer and prominent member of the influential "Fighting McCook" family who later served as a politician and territorial governor.
  • A. Amos T. Akerman
    Amos T. Akerman was a Reconstruction-era U.S. Attorney General known for vigorously enforcing civil rights laws and prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan under President Ulysses S. Grant.
  • B. Lyman G. Bloomingdale
    Lyman G. Bloomingdale was an American businessman and co-founder of the iconic Bloomingdale’s department store, which became a landmark in New York City retail.
  • C. George T. Wood
    George T. Wood was a 19th-century American politician who served as the second governor of Texas.
  • D. Thomas C. Ely
    Thomas C. Ely is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership within the Episcopal Church, including service as a diocesan bishop in the Upper Midwest.
  • E. Benjamin F. Blodgett
    Benjamin F. Blodgett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Blodgett surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements appears limited.
  • 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_69d806b943cc8190b6af624d385d7e12 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaeb556948190af008c88e5bbf051 completed April 12, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a001f79c6ac81909935dace3dcc8bea completed May 10, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00217cba8c819098b038579eb51957 completed May 10, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00221262288190b154d2e2c318d162 completed May 10, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:35 p.m.