Triple

T20049828
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James G. Birney E499162 entity
Predicate parentOf P120 FINISHED
Object William Birney — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 Birney | Statement: [James G. Birney, parentOf, William Birney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Birney
Context triple: [James G. Birney, parentOf, William Birney]
  • A. Zephaniah Platt
    Zephaniah Platt was an American lawyer, politician, and landowner who founded the city of Plattsburgh, New York in the late 18th century.
  • B. George Burnap
    George Burnap was an American landscape architect known for his influential work on early 20th-century urban parks and civic spaces in Washington, D.C.
  • C. William W. Bartley
    William W. Bartley was an American philosopher known for his work in epistemology and the philosophy of science, particularly his development of “pancritical rationalism” and his biographical and editorial work on Karl Popper.
  • D. Benjamin Harvey
    Benjamin Harvey was a 19th-century British entrepreneur best known for establishing the luxury department store that evolved into Harvey Nichols.
  • E. Henry Bayfield
    Henry Bayfield was a British naval officer and hydrographer known for his extensive 19th-century surveys and mapping of the Great Lakes region of North America.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Birney
Target entity description: William Birney was a Union Army general and prominent abolitionist who followed his father James G. Birney’s antislavery legacy during the American Civil War.
  • A. Zephaniah Platt
    Zephaniah Platt was an American lawyer, politician, and landowner who founded the city of Plattsburgh, New York in the late 18th century.
  • B. George Burnap
    George Burnap was an American landscape architect known for his influential work on early 20th-century urban parks and civic spaces in Washington, D.C.
  • C. William W. Bartley
    William W. Bartley was an American philosopher known for his work in epistemology and the philosophy of science, particularly his development of “pancritical rationalism” and his biographical and editorial work on Karl Popper.
  • D. Benjamin Harvey
    Benjamin Harvey was a 19th-century British entrepreneur best known for establishing the luxury department store that evolved into Harvey Nichols.
  • E. Henry Bayfield
    Henry Bayfield was a British naval officer and hydrographer known for his extensive 19th-century surveys and mapping of the Great Lakes region of North America.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69da6276bcf48190aabbf279192a5fb4 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6632cccb481908278c8b2930a8c26 completed April 20, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:37 p.m.