Triple
T21719406
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tonopah silver boom |
E536114
|
entity |
| Predicate | discoverer |
P412
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Jim Butler
Jim Butler was an American prospector credited with sparking Nevada’s Tonopah silver boom in the early 1900s.
|
E1497885
|
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: Jim Butler | Statement: [Tonopah silver boom, discoverer, Jim Butler]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Butler Context triple: [Tonopah silver boom, discoverer, Jim Butler]
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A.
Mark Schweiker
Mark Schweiker is an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.
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B.
Jonathan Mardukas
Jonathan Mardukas is a neurotic yet principled accountant-turned-informant on the run from both the mob and law enforcement in the action-comedy film "Midnight Run."
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C.
Roger Marshall
Roger Marshall is an American Republican politician and physician who has served as a U.S. Representative from Kansas and later as a U.S. Senator.
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D.
Scott Butler
Scott Butler is known primarily as a member of the prominent Butler family of Indianapolis, descended from Ovid Butler, the abolitionist lawyer and founder of Butler University.
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E.
William Pelham Barr
William Pelham Barr is an American lawyer and government official who served as the United States Attorney General under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump.
- 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: Jim Butler Triple: [Tonopah silver boom, discoverer, Jim Butler]
Generated description
Jim Butler was an American prospector credited with sparking Nevada’s Tonopah silver boom in the early 1900s.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Butler Target entity description: Jim Butler was an American prospector credited with sparking Nevada’s Tonopah silver boom in the early 1900s.
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A.
Mark Schweiker
Mark Schweiker is an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.
-
B.
Jonathan Mardukas
Jonathan Mardukas is a neurotic yet principled accountant-turned-informant on the run from both the mob and law enforcement in the action-comedy film "Midnight Run."
-
C.
Roger Marshall
Roger Marshall is an American Republican politician and physician who has served as a U.S. Representative from Kansas and later as a U.S. Senator.
-
D.
Scott Butler
Scott Butler is known primarily as a member of the prominent Butler family of Indianapolis, descended from Ovid Butler, the abolitionist lawyer and founder of Butler University.
-
E.
William Pelham Barr
William Pelham Barr is an American lawyer and government official who served as the United States Attorney General under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump.
- 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_69e0c46c6dd88190a595375fa6ebd701 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69efd96de818819084c268d4775a8e3a |
completed | April 27, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0a24b79c108190af57665372a88c2c |
completed | May 17, 2026, 8:27 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0a2698fb408190b0ad72d4fdb74ded |
completed | May 17, 2026, 8:35 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a0a274893d8819084c55439fe1eb686 |
completed | May 17, 2026, 8:38 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:47 p.m.