Triple

T186017
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Assassination of Abraham Lincoln E3981 entity
Predicate conspirator P6701 FINISHED
Object Edman Spangler
Edman Spangler was a stagehand at Ford's Theatre who was implicated and later convicted as a minor conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
E99444 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: Edman Spangler | Statement: [Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, conspirator, Edman Spangler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edman Spangler
Context triple: [Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, conspirator, Edman Spangler]
  • A. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • B. A. H. Johnson
    A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
  • C. Eugene Miller
    Eugene Miller was a screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "The Mark of Zorro."
  • D. Allen Thorndike Rice
    Allen Thorndike Rice was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and publisher best known for revitalizing and expanding the influence of the North American Review.
  • E. E. D. Nixon
    E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
  • 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: Edman Spangler
Triple: [Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, conspirator, Edman Spangler]
Generated description
Edman Spangler was a stagehand at Ford's Theatre who was implicated and later convicted as a minor conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edman Spangler
Target entity description: Edman Spangler was a stagehand at Ford's Theatre who was implicated and later convicted as a minor conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • A. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • B. A. H. Johnson
    A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
  • C. Eugene Miller
    Eugene Miller was a screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "The Mark of Zorro."
  • D. Allen Thorndike Rice
    Allen Thorndike Rice was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and publisher best known for revitalizing and expanding the influence of the North American Review.
  • E. E. D. Nixon
    E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
  • 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_69a25497e2f08190a040f8c6e1842643 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25bc834388190a93ec1ab0d5946de completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a79273925c8190aba320775ef88061 completed March 4, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a792fcb75881908562b79005d62b3b completed March 4, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a793fd988481908ad3c6d2cd46026d completed March 4, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:40 a.m.