Triple
T21879193
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan |
E540232
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableOfficeHolder |
P5750
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Joseph Simmons |
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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: William Joseph Simmons | Statement: [Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, notableOfficeHolder, William Joseph Simmons]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Joseph Simmons Context triple: [Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, notableOfficeHolder, William Joseph Simmons]
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A.
Christopher Simmons
Christopher Simmons is an American man whose death sentence as a juvenile offender led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by minors.
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B.
John Simmons
John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
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C.
John Simmons
John Simmons was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
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D.
George Simmons
George Simmons is a successful but lonely stand-up comedian and film star who confronts his mortality and personal relationships in the comedy-drama film "Funny People."
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E.
Jeremy Simmons
Jeremy Simmons is a film editor known for his work on the cult club-scene drama "Party Monster."
- 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: William Joseph Simmons Target entity description: William Joseph Simmons was an American white supremacist who led the early 20th-century revival of the Ku Klux Klan and served as its Imperial Wizard.
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A.
Christopher Simmons
Christopher Simmons is an American man whose death sentence as a juvenile offender led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by minors.
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B.
John Simmons
John Simmons was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
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C.
John Simmons
John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
-
D.
George Simmons
George Simmons is a successful but lonely stand-up comedian and film star who confronts his mortality and personal relationships in the comedy-drama film "Funny People."
-
E.
Jeremy Simmons
Jeremy Simmons is a film editor known for his work on the cult club-scene drama "Party Monster."
- 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_69e0c479a98081908ce333853fdd4348 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f118e42c108190b6308016655c429e |
completed | April 28, 2026, 8:30 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:03 p.m.