Triple

T21491255
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin E530240 entity
Predicate notableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object John Bascom
John Bascom was a prominent American educator, philosopher, and longtime president of the University of Wisconsin whose ideas strongly influenced the development of the institution.
E1492346 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: John Bascom | Statement: [Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin, notableBurial, John Bascom]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Bascom
Context triple: [Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin, notableBurial, John Bascom]
  • A. George Nicholas Bascom
    George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer whose role in a pivotal 1861 confrontation with the Apache leader Cochise made him a notable, if controversial, figure in the early Apache Wars.
  • B. Oliver Bascom
    Oliver Bascom was a 19th-century American politician who served as a New York State Canal Commissioner, helping oversee the administration and development of the state's canal system.
  • C. George M. Dawson
    George M. Dawson was a Canadian geologist and surveyor whose exploratory work in the Yukon and western Canada led to several places, including Dawson City, being named in his honor.
  • D. G. W. Bailey
    G. W. Bailey is an American character actor best known for his gruff, comedic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in the Police Academy series and the crime drama The Closer.
  • E. Herbert E. Winlock
    Herbert E. Winlock was an influential American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his extensive early 20th-century excavations and research on ancient Theban sites in Egypt.
  • 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: John Bascom
Triple: [Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin, notableBurial, John Bascom]
Generated description
John Bascom was a prominent American educator, philosopher, and longtime president of the University of Wisconsin whose ideas strongly influenced the development of the institution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Bascom
Target entity description: John Bascom was a prominent American educator, philosopher, and longtime president of the University of Wisconsin whose ideas strongly influenced the development of the institution.
  • A. George Nicholas Bascom
    George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer whose role in a pivotal 1861 confrontation with the Apache leader Cochise made him a notable, if controversial, figure in the early Apache Wars.
  • B. Oliver Bascom
    Oliver Bascom was a 19th-century American politician who served as a New York State Canal Commissioner, helping oversee the administration and development of the state's canal system.
  • C. George M. Dawson
    George M. Dawson was a Canadian geologist and surveyor whose exploratory work in the Yukon and western Canada led to several places, including Dawson City, being named in his honor.
  • D. G. W. Bailey
    G. W. Bailey is an American character actor best known for his gruff, comedic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in the Police Academy series and the crime drama The Closer.
  • E. Herbert E. Winlock
    Herbert E. Winlock was an influential American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his extensive early 20th-century excavations and research on ancient Theban sites in Egypt.
  • 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_6a09fd2257cc8190ab77a8b1eab01596 completed May 17, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09fe3e05008190b5efe2f911f47260 completed May 17, 2026, 5:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09febbbdec81908c7d1f59f83b23d2 completed May 17, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:22 p.m.