Triple

T21282855

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Parsons, West Virginia	`E524572`	entity
Predicate	namedAfter	`P63`	FINISHED
Object	Ward Parsons	`—`	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: 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.

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 (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_69e0b5171f6c8190a5d57201ede73811`	completed	April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e736d3dfbc819081bd876d95c7c480`	completed	April 21, 2026, 8:35 a.m.

Created at: April 16, 2026, 4:03 p.m.