Triple

T1821971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Billings Brown E40558 entity
Predicate middleName P143 FINISHED
Object Billings
Billings is the middle name of Henry Billings Brown, an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E217183 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: Billings | Statement: [Henry Billings Brown, middleName, Billings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billings
Context triple: [Henry Billings Brown, middleName, Billings]
  • A. Billings
    Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana and a major economic and cultural hub for the surrounding Mountain States region.
  • B. Billings
    Billings is a small rural municipality located on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada.
  • C. Missoula
    Missoula is a vibrant city in western Montana known for its university, outdoor recreation, and cultural scene.
  • D. Cheyenne
    Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of Wyoming, known for its historic railroad roots and annual Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo.
  • E. Cheyenne
    The Cheyenne are a Native American people of the Great Plains known for their nomadic horse culture, warrior societies, and significant role in 19th-century U.S. frontier history.
  • 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: Billings
Triple: [Henry Billings Brown, middleName, Billings]
Generated description
Billings is the middle name of Henry Billings Brown, an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billings
Target entity description: Billings is the middle name of Henry Billings Brown, an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Billings
    Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana and a major economic and cultural hub for the surrounding Mountain States region.
  • B. Billings
    Billings is a small rural municipality located on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada.
  • C. Missoula
    Missoula is a vibrant city in western Montana known for its university, outdoor recreation, and cultural scene.
  • D. Cheyenne
    Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of Wyoming, known for its historic railroad roots and annual Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo.
  • E. Cheyenne
    The Cheyenne are a Native American people of the Great Plains known for their nomadic horse culture, warrior societies, and significant role in 19th-century U.S. frontier history.
  • 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_69a8864526c081908a3a4d74f689e2c5 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa662b910c8190b1746730ee09015a completed March 6, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3c39a448190923588d9c07313e1 completed March 8, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf598ee5c819081549042859e076f completed March 8, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf6a6cc18819092a4e6535ce1376c completed March 8, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.