Triple

T22286228
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West Tennessee State Normal School E550868 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Tennessee state normal school system
The Tennessee state normal school system was a network of publicly funded teacher-training institutions established to prepare educators for the state's public schools.
 E1528376 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: Tennessee state normal school system | Statement: [West Tennessee State Normal School, partOf, Tennessee state normal school system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tennessee state normal school system
Context triple: [West Tennessee State Normal School, partOf, Tennessee state normal school system]
  • A. West Tennessee State Normal School
    West Tennessee State Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that eventually evolved into what is now the University of Memphis.
  • B. Northern State Normal School
    Northern State Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
  • C. Mississippi Normal College
    Mississippi Normal College was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into the University of Southern Mississippi.
  • D. Indiana Normal School
    Indiana Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
  • E. Durham State Normal School
    Durham State Normal School was a teacher-training institution in Durham, North Carolina, that evolved from the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua to focus on preparing educators.
  • 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: Tennessee state normal school system
Triple: [West Tennessee State Normal School, partOf, Tennessee state normal school system]
Generated description
The Tennessee state normal school system was a network of publicly funded teacher-training institutions established to prepare educators for the state's public schools.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tennessee state normal school system
Target entity description: The Tennessee state normal school system was a network of publicly funded teacher-training institutions established to prepare educators for the state's public schools.
  • A. West Tennessee State Normal School
    West Tennessee State Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that eventually evolved into what is now the University of Memphis.
  • B. Northern State Normal School
    Northern State Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
  • C. Mississippi Normal College
    Mississippi Normal College was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into the University of Southern Mississippi.
  • D. Indiana Normal School
    Indiana Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
  • E. Durham State Normal School
    Durham State Normal School was a teacher-training institution in Durham, North Carolina, that evolved from the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua to focus on preparing educators.
  • 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_69e11e44d538819097c6b8f333af3352 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f15607d9948190b4b8e9cd7fa4d390 completed April 29, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0abcadc3e081908e98e6810b3cba6e completed May 18, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0abda9a0f08190945fbf26bf893642 completed May 18, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0abef28a9481908c67d1eb401147d4 completed May 18, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:40 p.m.