Triple

T19449820
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Francis Smith E486584 entity
Predicate hasMiddleName P143 FINISHED
Object Francis
Francis is the middle name of Samuel Francis Smith, the American Baptist minister and lyricist best known for writing the patriotic song "My Country, ’Tis of Thee."
E486584 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: Francis | Statement: [Samuel Francis Smith, hasMiddleName, Francis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis
Context triple: [Samuel Francis Smith, hasMiddleName, Francis]
  • A. Francis
    Francis is the given first name of legendary Los Angeles Lakers play-by-play announcer Chick Hearn.
  • B. Francis
    Francis was a German nobleman who served as Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Francis
    Francis is the middle name of American motion picture and television pioneer Charles Francis Jenkins.
  • D. Francis
    Francis is the given name of Sir Francis Walsingham, the principal secretary and spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I of England.
  • E. Francis
    Francis is the formal given name of Frank McCourt, the Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the memoir "Angela's Ashes."
  • 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: Francis
Triple: [Samuel Francis Smith, hasMiddleName, Francis]
Generated description
Francis is the middle name of Samuel Francis Smith, the American Baptist minister and lyricist best known for writing the patriotic song "My Country, ’Tis of Thee."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis
Target entity description: Francis is the middle name of Samuel Francis Smith, the American Baptist minister and lyricist best known for writing the patriotic song "My Country, ’Tis of Thee."
  • A. Francis chosen
    Francis is the middle name of Samuel Francis Smith, the American Baptist minister and poet best known for writing the lyrics to the patriotic song "My Country, ’Tis of Thee."
  • B. Francis
    Francis is the middle name of Samuel Francis Du Pont, a prominent 19th-century U.S. Navy admiral from the Du Pont family.
  • C. Francis
    Francis is the middle name of Patrick Francis Healy, a prominent 19th-century American Jesuit priest and president of Georgetown University.
  • D. Francis
    Francis is the formal given name of Frank McCourt, the Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the memoir "Angela's Ashes."
  • E. Francis
    Francis is the middle name of Jasper Francis Cropsey, a prominent 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8e8d7ad488190a3373045029b0f3b completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6338caeb48190aeb1d511996984e3 completed April 20, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a073b3175248190817aedbfd95927dc completed May 15, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a073be7e28c8190999dacec37a2f3b4 completed May 15, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a073c9461d08190a2b89ebd16e66a58 completed May 15, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:38 p.m.