Triple

T19558481
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vesto Melvin Slipher E489378 entity
Predicate birthPlace P1 FINISHED
Object Mulberry, Indiana, United States
Mulberry, Indiana, United States is a small Midwestern town notable as the birthplace of astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher.
E1384140 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: Mulberry, Indiana, United States | Statement: [Vesto Melvin Slipher, birthPlace, Mulberry, Indiana, United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mulberry, Indiana, United States
Context triple: [Vesto Melvin Slipher, birthPlace, Mulberry, Indiana, United States]
  • A. Fairmount, Indiana, United States
    Fairmount, Indiana, United States is a small Midwestern town best known as the boyhood home of iconic actor James Dean.
  • B. Plum Tree, Indiana
    Plum Tree, Indiana is a small unincorporated rural community located in Huntington County in the U.S. state of Indiana.
  • C. Mooresville, Indiana, United States
    Mooresville, Indiana, United States is a small town in Morgan County best known as the longtime home of notorious Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger.
  • D. Merriam, Indiana
    Merriam, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Noble County in the northeastern part of the state.
  • E. Mardenis, Indiana
    Mardenis, Indiana is a small unincorporated rural community located in Huntington County in the U.S. state of Indiana.
  • 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: Mulberry, Indiana, United States
Triple: [Vesto Melvin Slipher, birthPlace, Mulberry, Indiana, United States]
Generated description
Mulberry, Indiana, United States is a small Midwestern town notable as the birthplace of astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mulberry, Indiana, United States
Target entity description: Mulberry, Indiana, United States is a small Midwestern town notable as the birthplace of astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher.
  • A. Fairmount, Indiana, United States
    Fairmount, Indiana, United States is a small Midwestern town best known as the boyhood home of iconic actor James Dean.
  • B. Plum Tree, Indiana
    Plum Tree, Indiana is a small unincorporated rural community located in Huntington County in the U.S. state of Indiana.
  • C. Mooresville, Indiana, United States
    Mooresville, Indiana, United States is a small town in Morgan County best known as the longtime home of notorious Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger.
  • D. Merriam, Indiana
    Merriam, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Noble County in the northeastern part of the state.
  • E. Mardenis, Indiana
    Mardenis, Indiana is a small unincorporated rural community located in Huntington County in the U.S. state of Indiana.
  • 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_69d8e8dc5d8c8190a6d7bd8864f43ca0 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e63f723d5081909553a4363b579a6b completed April 20, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0757809d9c8190bf7651fc9425691e completed May 15, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a075b89f9d08190be3b14a4073fb570 completed May 15, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a075c02150c8190b26a3d58ee68b481 completed May 15, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:42 p.m.