Triple

T19806091
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Patton Preston E475813 entity
Predicate notableRelative P367 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]
  • A. James Patton Preston
    James Patton Preston was an American politician who served as Governor of Virginia in the early 19th century.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A. James Patton Preston
    James Patton Preston was an American politician who served as Governor of Virginia in the early 19th century.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.