Triple

T13414713
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nebraska Territory E313180 entity
Predicate notableGovernor P5756 FINISHED
Object Thomas B. Cuming
Thomas B. Cuming was an American politician who served as acting governor of the Nebraska Territory in the mid-19th century, playing a key role in its early territorial organization.
E1086191 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: Thomas B. Cuming | Statement: [Nebraska Territory, notableGovernor, Thomas B. Cuming]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas B. Cuming
Context triple: [Nebraska Territory, notableGovernor, Thomas B. Cuming]
  • A. James W. W. Birch
    James W. W. Birch was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known as the first British Resident of Perak, whose assassination in 1875 sparked the Perak War and marked a key moment in Malaysian colonial history.
  • B. Charles Green Bingham
    Charles Green Bingham was a notable British philhellene known for his support of the Greek cause during the Greek War of Independence.
  • C. George A. Joslyn
    George A. Joslyn was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose wealth and patronage significantly shaped Omaha’s cultural and civic landscape.
  • D. William A. H. Loveland
    William A. H. Loveland was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader whose influence on regional development led to the Colorado city of Loveland bearing his name.
  • E. John Henry Blunt
    John Henry Blunt was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and theologian known for his influential ecclesiastical writings and reference works on Church of England doctrine and history.
  • 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: Thomas B. Cuming
Triple: [Nebraska Territory, notableGovernor, Thomas B. Cuming]
Generated description
Thomas B. Cuming was an American politician who served as acting governor of the Nebraska Territory in the mid-19th century, playing a key role in its early territorial organization.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas B. Cuming
Target entity description: Thomas B. Cuming was an American politician who served as acting governor of the Nebraska Territory in the mid-19th century, playing a key role in its early territorial organization.
  • A. James W. W. Birch
    James W. W. Birch was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known as the first British Resident of Perak, whose assassination in 1875 sparked the Perak War and marked a key moment in Malaysian colonial history.
  • B. Charles Green Bingham
    Charles Green Bingham was a notable British philhellene known for his support of the Greek cause during the Greek War of Independence.
  • C. George A. Joslyn
    George A. Joslyn was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose wealth and patronage significantly shaped Omaha’s cultural and civic landscape.
  • D. William A. H. Loveland
    William A. H. Loveland was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader whose influence on regional development led to the Colorado city of Loveland bearing his name.
  • E. John Henry Blunt
    John Henry Blunt was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and theologian known for his influential ecclesiastical writings and reference works on Church of England doctrine and history.
  • 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_69d806ad0c44819088833ae1ec9e9690 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaeb6e904819098cc9153fd2feaf5 completed April 12, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd19259070819089bd3caf66e5af29 completed May 7, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd1ad65b608190b325c82347a3d8b3 completed May 7, 2026, 11:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd1b68e8288190a9e9e3d855ed2719 completed May 7, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:39 p.m.