Triple

T20171849
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chokwe Lumumba E491979 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Edwin Finley Taliaferro
Edwin Finley Taliaferro, better known as Chokwe Lumumba, was an American civil rights attorney, Black nationalist activist, and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
 E1429743 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: Edwin Finley Taliaferro | Statement: [Chokwe Lumumba, birthName, Edwin Finley Taliaferro]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edwin Finley Taliaferro
Context triple: [Chokwe Lumumba, birthName, Edwin Finley Taliaferro]
  • A. William B. Taliaferro
    William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Abraham B. Venable
    Abraham B. Venable was an American politician and former U.S. congressman from Virginia who died in the 1811 Richmond Theatre fire.
  • D. Philip P. Barbour
    Philip P. Barbour was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his states’ rights views and strict constructionist approach to the Constitution.
  • E. Benjamin F. Cheatham
    Benjamin F. Cheatham was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Army of Tennessee.
  • 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: Edwin Finley Taliaferro
Triple: [Chokwe Lumumba, birthName, Edwin Finley Taliaferro]
Generated description
Edwin Finley Taliaferro, better known as Chokwe Lumumba, was an American civil rights attorney, Black nationalist activist, and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edwin Finley Taliaferro
Target entity description: Edwin Finley Taliaferro, better known as Chokwe Lumumba, was an American civil rights attorney, Black nationalist activist, and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
  • A. William B. Taliaferro
    William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Abraham B. Venable
    Abraham B. Venable was an American politician and former U.S. congressman from Virginia who died in the 1811 Richmond Theatre fire.
  • D. Philip P. Barbour
    Philip P. Barbour was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his states’ rights views and strict constructionist approach to the Constitution.
  • E. Benjamin F. Cheatham
    Benjamin F. Cheatham was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Army of Tennessee.
  • 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_69da6266c6888190bc1a3ecf24814d34 completed April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e66848ae3c8190aa5fde66da35a89a completed April 20, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087b05ecf48190ac8f13affe061d36 completed May 16, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088014c30c8190937586dc3f23862e completed May 16, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08810e37c08190bd7e8b584204064c completed May 16, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:35 p.m.