Triple

T1728690
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas, West Virginia E37558 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Beall Davis
Thomas Beall Davis was an American businessman, railroad executive, and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
 E230312 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 Beall Davis | Statement: [Thomas, West Virginia, namedAfter, Thomas Beall Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Beall Davis
Context triple: [Thomas, West Virginia, namedAfter, Thomas Beall Davis]
  • A. George Washington Buckner
    George Washington Buckner was an African American physician, educator, and diplomat who served as U.S. Minister to Liberia in the early 20th century.
  • B. James Hicks Stone
    James Hicks Stone was the brother of prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone and a member of the Stone family noted for its contributions to architecture and the arts.
  • C. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • D. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • E. Shelton Jackson Lee
    Shelton Jackson Lee, better known as Spike Lee, is an influential American filmmaker, producer, and actor renowned for his provocative, socially conscious films exploring race, politics, and urban life.
  • 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 Beall Davis
Triple: [Thomas, West Virginia, namedAfter, Thomas Beall Davis]
Generated description
Thomas Beall Davis was an American businessman, railroad executive, and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Beall Davis
Target entity description: Thomas Beall Davis was an American businessman, railroad executive, and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
  • A. George Washington Buckner
    George Washington Buckner was an African American physician, educator, and diplomat who served as U.S. Minister to Liberia in the early 20th century.
  • B. James Hicks Stone
    James Hicks Stone was the brother of prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone and a member of the Stone family noted for its contributions to architecture and the arts.
  • C. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • D. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • E. Shelton Jackson Lee
    Shelton Jackson Lee, better known as Spike Lee, is an influential American filmmaker, producer, and actor renowned for his provocative, socially conscious films exploring race, politics, and urban life.
  • 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_69a8861acab88190bb43cde203429399 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa637da7048190a06f2eec6cb87f70 completed March 6, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae26ee4c088190a767d71f1a68a734 completed March 9, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae277895488190ae4a2337cf2ae915 completed March 9, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae27e7113081909835657bfff3f9e8 completed March 9, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.