Triple

T1963847
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 12 Years a Slave E42644 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object William Ford
William Ford is a devout but conflicted Southern plantation owner depicted in "12 Years a Slave," who initially shows relative kindness to Solomon Northup while still participating in the system of slavery.
E218667 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 Ford | Statement: [12 Years a Slave, character, William Ford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ford
Context triple: [12 Years a Slave, character, William Ford]
  • A. William Arthur
    William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
  • B. William Davis
    William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
  • C. Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn
    Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and civic leader who played a key role in the early development of garden cemeteries and public institutions in Massachusetts.
  • D. William James Adams Jr.
    William James Adams Jr., better known as will.i.am, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and founding member of the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas.
  • E. Charles Franklin
    Charles Franklin is an American political scientist and pollster known for his work on public opinion, elections, and co-founding the polling aggregation site Pollster.com.
  • 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 Ford
Triple: [12 Years a Slave, character, William Ford]
Generated description
William Ford is a devout but conflicted Southern plantation owner depicted in "12 Years a Slave," who initially shows relative kindness to Solomon Northup while still participating in the system of slavery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ford
Target entity description: William Ford is a devout but conflicted Southern plantation owner depicted in "12 Years a Slave," who initially shows relative kindness to Solomon Northup while still participating in the system of slavery.
  • A. William Arthur
    William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
  • B. William Davis
    William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
  • C. Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn
    Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and civic leader who played a key role in the early development of garden cemeteries and public institutions in Massachusetts.
  • D. William James Adams Jr.
    William James Adams Jr., better known as will.i.am, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and founding member of the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas.
  • E. Charles Franklin
    Charles Franklin is an American political scientist and pollster known for his work on public opinion, elections, and co-founding the polling aggregation site Pollster.com.
  • 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_69a88711151c8190940b2572095059d7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb3ada4148190ad830d4a3d7fd662 completed March 7, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbd32eb88190a2069b6490b12e5d completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc5150e48190aa475798c790b767 completed March 8, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd10a6a88190818976d709d81596 completed March 8, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.