Triple
T21905023
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Washington Star |
E540912
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Alexander Robey Shepherd |
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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: Alexander Robey Shepherd | Statement: [Washington Star, foundedBy, Alexander Robey Shepherd]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Robey Shepherd Context triple: [Washington Star, foundedBy, Alexander Robey Shepherd]
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A.
Hunter Benedict Shepherd
Hunter Benedict Shepherd, better known as Ben Shepherd, is an American musician and songwriter best known as the longtime bassist for the rock band Soundgarden.
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B.
Christopher Shea
Christopher Shea was an American child actor best known for voicing Linus van Pelt in several classic Peanuts animated television specials.
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C.
Timothy Ivory Carpenter
Timothy Ivory Carpenter is the defendant whose challenge to the warrantless collection of his cell phone location data led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Carpenter v. United States, which expanded Fourth Amendment privacy protections.
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D.
Jonathan Sheffer
Jonathan Sheffer is an American composer and conductor known for his work on film scores, concert music, and as the founder of the Eos Orchestra.
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E.
Alexander Rea
Alexander Rea was the individual after whom the Town of Alexander in New York was named, likely an early settler or prominent local figure in the area’s founding.
- 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: Alexander Robey Shepherd Target entity description: Alexander Robey Shepherd was a powerful 19th-century American politician and businessman best known for serving as the territorial governor of the District of Columbia and spearheading major modernization of Washington, D.C.'s infrastructure.
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A.
Hunter Benedict Shepherd
Hunter Benedict Shepherd, better known as Ben Shepherd, is an American musician and songwriter best known as the longtime bassist for the rock band Soundgarden.
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B.
Christopher Shea
Christopher Shea was an American child actor best known for voicing Linus van Pelt in several classic Peanuts animated television specials.
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C.
Timothy Ivory Carpenter
Timothy Ivory Carpenter is the defendant whose challenge to the warrantless collection of his cell phone location data led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Carpenter v. United States, which expanded Fourth Amendment privacy protections.
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D.
Jonathan Sheffer
Jonathan Sheffer is an American composer and conductor known for his work on film scores, concert music, and as the founder of the Eos Orchestra.
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E.
Alexander Rea
Alexander Rea was the individual after whom the Town of Alexander in New York was named, likely an early settler or prominent local figure in the area’s founding.
- 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_69e0c47b4e8c81908c8076eaa4c8e4f2 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f121d4c0248190909172decd7cbc64 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:08 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:32 p.m.