Triple
T18743149
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded |
E458339
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entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Dr. John Hendren Bell |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Dr. John Hendren Bell | Statement: [Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, associatedWith, Dr. John Hendren Bell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. John Hendren Bell Context triple: [Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, associatedWith, Dr. John Hendren Bell]
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A.
Dr. William Abraham Bell
Dr. William Abraham Bell was a 19th-century English physician, photographer, and entrepreneur who became a prominent Western U.S. land developer and co-founder of Manitou Springs and Colorado Springs.
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B.
Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr.
Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr. is the adventurous archaeologist and whip-wielding hero better known as Indiana Jones from the iconic film franchise.
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C.
John Hendren Bell
chosen
John Hendren Bell was the superintendent of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded whose role as respondent in the 1927 U.S. Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell made him historically associated with the defense of compulsory sterilization laws.
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D.
Dr. Otis Cole
Dr. Otis Cole is a fictional physician and one of the main characters on the medical drama television series "Off the Map," which follows doctors working in a remote South American clinic.
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E.
Charles Emlen Bell
Charles Emlen Bell was an American architect known for designing prominent public buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d8d394dc308190b6725073f5db324c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e57690a4d081908ab4c3890bb07e86 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 12:42 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:51 a.m.