Triple
T17832804
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Howard County, Texas |
E445303
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Volney E. Howard |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Volney E. Howard | Statement: [Howard County, Texas, namedAfter, Volney E. Howard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Volney E. Howard Context triple: [Howard County, Texas, namedAfter, Volney E. Howard]
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A.
Isaac N. Brown
Isaac N. Brown was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Arkansas during the American Civil War.
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B.
Sutton E. Griggs
Sutton E. Griggs was an African American Baptist minister, novelist, and social activist best known for his early 20th-century works addressing race, segregation, and Black uplift in the United States.
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C.
Alonzo B. Cornell
Alonzo B. Cornell was an American politician and businessman who served as governor of New York in the early 1880s and was a prominent figure in the Republican Party during the Gilded Age.
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D.
Ezra D. Alexander
Ezra D. Alexander was one of the founding members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, helping to establish the historically significant African American collegiate fraternity in the early 20th century.
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E.
Thomas T. Moulton
Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer and multiple Academy Award winner known for his influential work on classic Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Volney E. Howard Target entity description: Volney E. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and judge who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas and held several prominent legal and public offices.
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A.
Isaac N. Brown
Isaac N. Brown was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Arkansas during the American Civil War.
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B.
Sutton E. Griggs
Sutton E. Griggs was an African American Baptist minister, novelist, and social activist best known for his early 20th-century works addressing race, segregation, and Black uplift in the United States.
-
C.
Alonzo B. Cornell
Alonzo B. Cornell was an American politician and businessman who served as governor of New York in the early 1880s and was a prominent figure in the Republican Party during the Gilded Age.
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D.
Ezra D. Alexander
Ezra D. Alexander was one of the founding members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, helping to establish the historically significant African American collegiate fraternity in the early 20th century.
-
E.
Thomas T. Moulton
Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer and multiple Academy Award winner known for his influential work on classic Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9f1a6d881909f024bc603111cdb |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e48d257414819088730f48ad7ab9ae |
completed | April 19, 2026, 8:07 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:15 a.m.