Triple
T19806091
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Patton Preston |
E475813
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRelative |
P367
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FINISHED |
| Object |
William Ballard Preston
William Ballard Preston was a 19th-century American politician from Virginia who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Zachary Taylor and as a member of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Confederate Senate.
|
E1403272
|
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 Ballard Preston | Statement: [James Patton Preston, notableRelative, William Ballard Preston]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ballard Preston Context triple: [James Patton Preston, notableRelative, William Ballard Preston]
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A.
James Patton Preston
James Patton Preston was an American politician who served as Governor of Virginia in the early 19th century.
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B.
William M. Ingraham
William M. Ingraham was an American government official who served in the U.S. War Department during the early 20th century.
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C.
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.
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D.
John A. Parker
John A. Parker was a religious leader best known for founding Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, a congregation that later became historically significant in the American civil rights movement.
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E.
Alexander McCook
Alexander McCook was a Union major general in the American Civil War, known as one of the "Fighting McCooks" family of Ohio officers.
- 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 Ballard Preston Triple: [James Patton Preston, notableRelative, William Ballard Preston]
Generated description
William Ballard Preston was a 19th-century American politician from Virginia who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Zachary Taylor and as a member of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Confederate Senate.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ballard Preston Target entity description: William Ballard Preston was a 19th-century American politician from Virginia who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Zachary Taylor and as a member of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Confederate Senate.
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A.
James Patton Preston
James Patton Preston was an American politician who served as Governor of Virginia in the early 19th century.
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B.
William M. Ingraham
William M. Ingraham was an American government official who served in the U.S. War Department during the early 20th century.
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C.
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.
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D.
John A. Parker
John A. Parker was a religious leader best known for founding Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, a congregation that later became historically significant in the American civil rights movement.
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E.
Alexander McCook
Alexander McCook was a Union major general in the American Civil War, known as one of the "Fighting McCooks" family of Ohio officers.
- 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_6a07f6d201688190990e86748028cdd6 |
completed | May 16, 2026, 4:47 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a07f9d9eb3c8190966970320db356c6 |
completed | May 16, 2026, 5 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a07fa385e68819094d17112b89cac12 |
completed | May 16, 2026, 5:01 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:49 p.m.