Triple

T2250772
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Gill Shorter E49610 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Thomas H. Watts
Thomas H. Watts was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Alabama during the Civil War and later became the state's attorney general.
E654748 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: Thomas H. Watts | Statement: [John Gill Shorter, successor, Thomas H. Watts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas H. Watts
Context triple: [John Gill Shorter, successor, Thomas H. Watts]
  • A. Harry M. Wegeforth
    Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
  • B. Theodore A. Welton
    Theodore A. Welton was a physicist best known for co-formulating the fluctuation–dissipation theorem, a fundamental result in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
  • C. Albert D. Wheelon
    Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
  • D. George T. Dunlap
    George T. Dunlap was an American publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Grosset & Dunlap.
  • E. Samuel J. Kirkwood
    Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
  • 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: Thomas H. Watts
Triple: [John Gill Shorter, successor, Thomas H. Watts]
Generated description
Thomas H. Watts was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Alabama during the Civil War and later became the state's attorney general.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas H. Watts
Target entity description: Thomas H. Watts was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Alabama during the Civil War and later became the state's attorney general.
  • A. Harry M. Wegeforth
    Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
  • B. Theodore A. Welton
    Theodore A. Welton was a physicist best known for co-formulating the fluctuation–dissipation theorem, a fundamental result in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
  • C. Albert D. Wheelon
    Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
  • D. George T. Dunlap
    George T. Dunlap was an American publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Grosset & Dunlap.
  • E. Samuel J. Kirkwood
    Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
  • 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_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc11b61888190af3b11b87dc8e0dc completed March 7, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7e4e76cf881909e45c3652a372a70 completed March 28, 2026, 2:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7e6671e2c8190aed42aa673540efa completed March 28, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7e6cd820881909ef8fd3bc28d2716 completed March 28, 2026, 2:33 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.