Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Patton Preston E475813 entity
Predicate notableRelative P367 FINISHED
Object Robert Taylor Preston
Robert Taylor Preston was a 19th-century American military officer and Virginia politician from the prominent Preston family.
E1395714 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: Robert Taylor Preston | Statement: [James Patton Preston, notableRelative, Robert Taylor Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Taylor Preston
Context triple: [James Patton Preston, notableRelative, Robert Taylor Preston]
  • A. Robert Young
    Robert Young was a Scottish musician best known as the longtime guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for the alternative rock band Primal Scream.
  • B. Robert Young
    Robert Young is a British film and television director known for his work on comedies and dramas, including the ensemble farce "Fierce Creatures."
  • C. Robert Young
    Robert Young is a relatively obscure figure primarily known for being the husband of Elizabeth Louise Henderson.
  • D. Robert Young
    Robert Young was an American actor best known for his starring roles in the classic television series "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D."
  • E. Robert Young
    Robert Young is an entrepreneur and author best known as a co-founder of Red Hat, a pioneering company in the open-source software industry.
  • 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: Robert Taylor Preston
Triple: [James Patton Preston, notableRelative, Robert Taylor Preston]
Generated description
Robert Taylor Preston was a 19th-century American military officer and Virginia politician from the prominent Preston family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Taylor Preston
Target entity description: Robert Taylor Preston was a 19th-century American military officer and Virginia politician from the prominent Preston family.
  • A. Robert Young
    Robert Young was a Scottish musician best known as the longtime guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for the alternative rock band Primal Scream.
  • B. Robert Young
    Robert Young is a relatively obscure figure primarily known for being the husband of Elizabeth Louise Henderson.
  • C. Robert Young
    Robert Young is a British film and television director known for his work on comedies and dramas, including the ensemble farce "Fierce Creatures."
  • D. Robert Young
    Robert Young was an American actor best known for his starring roles in the classic television series "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D."
  • E. Robert Young
    Robert Young is an entrepreneur and author best known as a co-founder of Red Hat, a pioneering company in the open-source software industry.
  • 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_6a07c50c6a7c81908bf0d55dad7a6556 completed May 16, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07c66178108190a6fc2d7566af44ad completed May 16, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07c73b731881909c8abaeb541e34f9 completed May 16, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:49 p.m.