Triple

T21491252
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin E530240 entity
Predicate notableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object Herman L. Ekern
Herman L. Ekern was an American lawyer, progressive Republican politician, and reformer who served as Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor and was a key architect of the state’s pioneering social welfare and insurance legislation.
E1488620 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: Herman L. Ekern | Statement: [Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin, notableBurial, Herman L. Ekern]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman L. Ekern
Context triple: [Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin, notableBurial, Herman L. Ekern]
  • A. Lawrence Muggerud
    Lawrence Muggerud is an American DJ and record producer best known as DJ Muggs, the founding producer and sonic architect behind the hip hop group Cypress Hill.
  • B. Harry W. Gerstad
    Harry W. Gerstad was an American film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on classic films such as "High Noon" and "Champion."
  • C. Charles C. Lauritsen
    Charles C. Lauritsen was a Danish-American physicist known for his pioneering work in nuclear physics and his influential role in building the physics program at the California Institute of Technology.
  • D. Harold W. Arberg
    Harold W. Arberg was an American lyricist best known for writing the modern official lyrics to the U.S. Army’s song, “The Army Goes Rolling Along.”
  • E. Howard C. Petersen
    Howard C. Petersen was an American lawyer, government official, and banker who played a key role in U.S. economic and defense policy during and after World War II.
  • 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: Herman L. Ekern
Triple: [Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin, notableBurial, Herman L. Ekern]
Generated description
Herman L. Ekern was an American lawyer, progressive Republican politician, and reformer who served as Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor and was a key architect of the state’s pioneering social welfare and insurance legislation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman L. Ekern
Target entity description: Herman L. Ekern was an American lawyer, progressive Republican politician, and reformer who served as Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor and was a key architect of the state’s pioneering social welfare and insurance legislation.
  • A. Lawrence Muggerud
    Lawrence Muggerud is an American DJ and record producer best known as DJ Muggs, the founding producer and sonic architect behind the hip hop group Cypress Hill.
  • B. Harry W. Gerstad
    Harry W. Gerstad was an American film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on classic films such as "High Noon" and "Champion."
  • C. Charles C. Lauritsen
    Charles C. Lauritsen was a Danish-American physicist known for his pioneering work in nuclear physics and his influential role in building the physics program at the California Institute of Technology.
  • D. Harold W. Arberg
    Harold W. Arberg was an American lyricist best known for writing the modern official lyrics to the U.S. Army’s song, “The Army Goes Rolling Along.”
  • E. Howard C. Petersen
    Howard C. Petersen was an American lawyer, government official, and banker who played a key role in U.S. economic and defense policy during and after World War II.
  • 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_69e0c45bd15481909fba5910765cdda2 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e9ea3ba2fc81909638bbb3e1d92ea5 completed April 23, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09e81d14a0819086eecdab7b6a14a7 completed May 17, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09e92969c881908b865da9d78cc48e completed May 17, 2026, 4:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09e9ad9da08190b222b06c41734994 completed May 17, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:22 p.m.