Triple

T19806077
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Patton Preston E475813 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Francis Preston
Francis Preston was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician from Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
E1401233 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 Preston | Statement: [James Patton Preston, sibling, Francis Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Preston
Context triple: [James Patton Preston, sibling, Francis Preston]
  • A. Augustus C. French
    Augustus C. French was an American politician who served as the ninth governor of Illinois in the mid-19th century.
  • B. Daniel Bridgman
    Daniel Bridgman was the father of Laura Bridgman, the 19th-century American deaf-blind woman who became an early pioneer in the education of people with multiple sensory disabilities.
  • C. James W. Forsyth
    James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • D. John Lum
    John Lum is a musician best known as a member of the Southern rock group The Allman Betts Band.
  • E. Asa C. Adams
    Asa C. Adams was an individual significant enough to his community—likely as an educator, civic leader, or benefactor—that a local elementary school was named in his honor.
  • 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 Preston
Triple: [James Patton Preston, sibling, Francis Preston]
Generated description
Francis Preston was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician from Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Preston
Target entity description: Francis Preston was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician from Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • A. Augustus C. French
    Augustus C. French was an American politician who served as the ninth governor of Illinois in the mid-19th century.
  • B. Daniel Bridgman
    Daniel Bridgman was the father of Laura Bridgman, the 19th-century American deaf-blind woman who became an early pioneer in the education of people with multiple sensory disabilities.
  • C. James W. Forsyth
    James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • D. John Lum
    John Lum is a musician best known as a member of the Southern rock group The Allman Betts Band.
  • E. Asa C. Adams
    Asa C. Adams was an individual significant enough to his community—likely as an educator, civic leader, or benefactor—that a local elementary school was named in his honor.
  • 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_69d8e51bc4208190a1c57d8c5d1b15e4 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65428081c8190b394c442f4c2a9a6 completed April 20, 2026, 4:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07ea31584c8190803e38d31f96e6cf completed May 16, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07ee87ee288190818219c0121c2382 completed May 16, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07ef1a3ea08190aea772c340b4cc20 completed May 16, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:49 p.m.