Triple
T14182247
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Blacksburg, Virginia |
E351483
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Black |
E37004
|
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 Black | Statement: [Blacksburg, Virginia, namedAfter, William Black]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Black Context triple: [Blacksburg, Virginia, namedAfter, William Black]
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A.
William Black
chosen
William Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various fields, including literature, business, and the arts.
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B.
William Blackwood
William Blackwood was a Scottish publisher and bookseller best known for founding the influential 19th-century literary magazine Blackwood's Magazine.
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C.
William Goodhart
William Goodhart was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the horror sequel "Exorcist II: The Heretic."
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D.
Richard Price
Richard Price was an 18th-century Welsh moral philosopher, dissenting minister, and political radical known for his influential writings on population, economics, and civil liberties.
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E.
Richard Price
Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter renowned for his gritty urban crime stories and work on films like "The Color of Money" and TV series such as "The Wire."
- 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_69d8278834a08190b0f1784e58d7b99c |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de61ca3ad88190944850c97760dcbf |
completed | April 14, 2026, 3:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fcf8114774819094670dd800a40796 |
completed | May 7, 2026, 8:37 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:02 a.m.