Triple

T19498674
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William A. Hammond E487841 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object William Alexander Hammond
William Alexander Hammond was a 19th-century American neurologist and U.S. Army Surgeon General known for his pioneering work in neurology and medical reform.
E1377865 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: William Alexander Hammond | Statement: [William A. Hammond, name, William Alexander Hammond]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Alexander Hammond
Context triple: [William A. Hammond, name, William Alexander Hammond]
  • A. Horace Hood
    Horace Hood was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for his service and death at the Battle of Jutland during World War I.
  • B. Charles P. Maury
    Charles P. Maury was a member of the prominent Maury family, known for producing several notable American scientists and naval officers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Wilson G. Bradshaw
    Wilson G. Bradshaw is an American academic administrator who served as president of Florida Gulf Coast University and is known for guiding the institution through a period of significant growth and development.
  • D. William Gorham Rice
    William Gorham Rice was an American civil servant, author, and expert on carillons who held various governmental posts in New York and wrote influential works on carillon music.
  • E. Isham Randolph
    Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
  • 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: William Alexander Hammond
Triple: [William A. Hammond, name, William Alexander Hammond]
Generated description
William Alexander Hammond was a 19th-century American neurologist and U.S. Army Surgeon General known for his pioneering work in neurology and medical reform.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Alexander Hammond
Target entity description: William Alexander Hammond was a 19th-century American neurologist and U.S. Army Surgeon General known for his pioneering work in neurology and medical reform.
  • A. Horace Hood
    Horace Hood was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for his service and death at the Battle of Jutland during World War I.
  • B. Charles P. Maury
    Charles P. Maury was a member of the prominent Maury family, known for producing several notable American scientists and naval officers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Wilson G. Bradshaw
    Wilson G. Bradshaw is an American academic administrator who served as president of Florida Gulf Coast University and is known for guiding the institution through a period of significant growth and development.
  • D. William Gorham Rice
    William Gorham Rice was an American civil servant, author, and expert on carillons who held various governmental posts in New York and wrote influential works on carillon music.
  • E. Isham Randolph
    Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
  • 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_69d8e8d9d1c88190b01cd78b8be49384 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e63493232881909fc33fb84da3e1b5 completed April 20, 2026, 2:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0740631e0c819087d828666f633899 completed May 15, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0740e72ad48190a98124f59d3e33b6 completed May 15, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07416b52888190aa6b2a251b407abd completed May 15, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:40 p.m.