Triple

T15604698
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alonzo Herndon E375126 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Norris B. Herndon
Norris B. Herndon was an influential African American businessman and philanthropist who expanded and led the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, significantly advancing Black economic empowerment in the early to mid-20th century.
E1209755 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: Norris B. Herndon | Statement: [Alonzo Herndon, hasChild, Norris B. Herndon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norris B. Herndon
Context triple: [Alonzo Herndon, hasChild, Norris B. Herndon]
  • A. Emory S. Foster
    Emory S. Foster was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, best known for leading Federal forces in the Battle of Lone Jack in Missouri.
  • B. W. P. Inman
    W. P. Inman is the Confederate deserter and introspective protagonist of Charles Frazier’s novel "Cold Mountain," whose perilous journey home through the American Civil War drives the story.
  • C. Lafayette S. Foster
    Lafayette S. Foster was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut and briefly as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Civil War era.
  • D. Charles T. Menoher
    Charles T. Menoher was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 42nd "Rainbow" Division during World War I and later served as the first chief of the Army Air Service.
  • E. Jesse E. Moorland
    Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
  • 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: Norris B. Herndon
Triple: [Alonzo Herndon, hasChild, Norris B. Herndon]
Generated description
Norris B. Herndon was an influential African American businessman and philanthropist who expanded and led the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, significantly advancing Black economic empowerment in the early to mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norris B. Herndon
Target entity description: Norris B. Herndon was an influential African American businessman and philanthropist who expanded and led the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, significantly advancing Black economic empowerment in the early to mid-20th century.
  • A. Emory S. Foster
    Emory S. Foster was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, best known for leading Federal forces in the Battle of Lone Jack in Missouri.
  • B. W. P. Inman
    W. P. Inman is the Confederate deserter and introspective protagonist of Charles Frazier’s novel "Cold Mountain," whose perilous journey home through the American Civil War drives the story.
  • C. Lafayette S. Foster
    Lafayette S. Foster was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut and briefly as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Civil War era.
  • D. Charles T. Menoher
    Charles T. Menoher was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 42nd "Rainbow" Division during World War I and later served as the first chief of the Army Air Service.
  • E. Jesse E. Moorland
    Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
  • 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_69d85cce25008190b13b52745fbd719b completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e7d9328819090e93d55881269a5 completed April 16, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0035450810819092796c556dfa8ed3 completed May 10, 2026, 7:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0036111b54819096d62c61b8d4244d completed May 10, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00374fdecc819091f64e3174d013a6 completed May 10, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:12 a.m.