Triple

T21282855
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Parsons, West Virginia E524572 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Ward Parsons
Ward Parsons was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Parsons, West Virginia, was named.
E1476885 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: Ward Parsons | Statement: [Parsons, West Virginia, namedAfter, Ward Parsons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ward Parsons
Context triple: [Parsons, West Virginia, namedAfter, Ward Parsons]
  • A. Frank Alvah Parsons
    Frank Alvah Parsons was an influential American educator and design theorist whose leadership helped transform art and design education in the early 20th century.
  • B. William Barclay Parsons
    William Barclay Parsons was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer responsible for designing and overseeing the construction of New York City's original subway system.
  • C. Robert W. Wood
    Robert W. Wood was an American physicist and optical scientist known for his pioneering work in physical optics, spectroscopy, and ultraviolet photography.
  • D. Roy D. Chapin
    Roy D. Chapin was an American industrialist and co-founder of the Hudson Motor Car Company who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Herbert Hoover.
  • E. Orville C. Pratt
    Orville C. Pratt was a 19th-century American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Oregon Territorial Supreme Court and later practiced law in California.
  • 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: Ward Parsons
Triple: [Parsons, West Virginia, namedAfter, Ward Parsons]
Generated description
Ward Parsons was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Parsons, West Virginia, was named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ward Parsons
Target entity description: Ward Parsons was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Parsons, West Virginia, was named.
  • A. Frank Alvah Parsons
    Frank Alvah Parsons was an influential American educator and design theorist whose leadership helped transform art and design education in the early 20th century.
  • B. William Barclay Parsons
    William Barclay Parsons was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer responsible for designing and overseeing the construction of New York City's original subway system.
  • C. Robert W. Wood
    Robert W. Wood was an American physicist and optical scientist known for his pioneering work in physical optics, spectroscopy, and ultraviolet photography.
  • D. Roy D. Chapin
    Roy D. Chapin was an American industrialist and co-founder of the Hudson Motor Car Company who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Herbert Hoover.
  • E. Orville C. Pratt
    Orville C. Pratt was a 19th-century American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Oregon Territorial Supreme Court and later practiced law in California.
  • 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_69e0b5171f6c8190a5d57201ede73811 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e736d3dfbc819081bd876d95c7c480 completed April 21, 2026, 8:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a099ecab1148190859980fe62cde225 completed May 17, 2026, 10:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a099f186d7c81908f00a2b44d76b088 completed May 17, 2026, 10:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a099f7f27b88190a68c239bc44c8f43 completed May 17, 2026, 10:59 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 4:03 p.m.