Triple
T13545459
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Merrillville, Indiana |
E323496
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Merrill |
E323496
|
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: William Merrill | Statement: [Merrillville, Indiana, namedAfter, William Merrill]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Merrill Context triple: [Merrillville, Indiana, namedAfter, William Merrill]
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A.
William Merrill
chosen
William Merrill was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Merrillville, Indiana, was named in his honor.
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B.
Donald Windham
Donald Windham was an American novelist and memoirist known for his close association with writers like Tennessee Williams and for whose legacy the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize was established.
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C.
Murray Kinnell
Murray Kinnell was an English-born character actor active in early 20th-century American cinema, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Elihu Doty
Elihu Doty was a 19th-century American missionary and linguist known for his pioneering role in developing and promoting the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Southern Min (Hokkien) Chinese.
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E.
Ian Blume
Ian Blume is a film editor known for his work on the drama feature "Ben Is Back."
- 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_69d8076776248190bdf0d4fa1f85a5fc |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbafdb466881908fb46642dc66849d |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f75da2c2008190b43a653a349ea0c7 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:45 p.m.