Triple

T21383903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ward McAllister E527439 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Samuel Ward McAllister
Samuel Ward McAllister was a prominent 19th-century American social arbiter and lawyer best known for shaping and publicizing the elite "Four Hundred" of New York high society during the Gilded Age.
 E1481382 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: Samuel Ward McAllister | Statement: [Ward McAllister, fullName, Samuel Ward McAllister]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Samuel Ward McAllister
Context triple: [Ward McAllister, fullName, Samuel Ward McAllister]
  • 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. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Isaac R. Trimble
    Isaac R. Trimble was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in several key battles including Gettysburg.
  • E. Lilburn Trigg Myers
    Lilburn Trigg Myers was a railroad executive whose influence in the region led to the Georgia city of Lilburn being named in his honor.
  • 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: Samuel Ward McAllister
Triple: [Ward McAllister, fullName, Samuel Ward McAllister]
Generated description
Samuel Ward McAllister was a prominent 19th-century American social arbiter and lawyer best known for shaping and publicizing the elite "Four Hundred" of New York high society during the Gilded Age.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Samuel Ward McAllister
Target entity description: Samuel Ward McAllister was a prominent 19th-century American social arbiter and lawyer best known for shaping and publicizing the elite "Four Hundred" of New York high society during the Gilded Age.
  • 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. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Isaac R. Trimble
    Isaac R. Trimble was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in several key battles including Gettysburg.
  • E. Lilburn Trigg Myers
    Lilburn Trigg Myers was a railroad executive whose influence in the region led to the Georgia city of Lilburn being named in his honor.
  • 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_69e0b51f363c8190944000ab5523b02b completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e8b0f164d08190a7df85451c082f53 completed April 22, 2026, 11:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09b426553881909477ea3902819672 completed May 17, 2026, 12:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09b5e6d1ac8190aeec88859d17d257 completed May 17, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09b699fef081909797a5fc50814cb9 completed May 17, 2026, 12:37 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 5:12 p.m.