Triple

T2426233
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Dobbs Spaight E53532 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Richard Spaight Sr.
Richard Spaight Sr. was a colonial-era North Carolinian planter and politician whose family lineage produced prominent early American statesmen.
E266113 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: Richard Spaight Sr. | Statement: [Richard Dobbs Spaight, father, Richard Spaight Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Spaight Sr.
Context triple: [Richard Dobbs Spaight, father, Richard Spaight Sr.]
  • A. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • B. George Barnes
    George Barnes was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, earning multiple Academy Award nominations and one win.
  • C. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • D. William Belton
    William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
  • E. Thomas Parkhurst
    Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
  • 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: Richard Spaight Sr.
Triple: [Richard Dobbs Spaight, father, Richard Spaight Sr.]
Generated description
Richard Spaight Sr. was a colonial-era North Carolinian planter and politician whose family lineage produced prominent early American statesmen.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Spaight Sr.
Target entity description: Richard Spaight Sr. was a colonial-era North Carolinian planter and politician whose family lineage produced prominent early American statesmen.
  • A. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • B. George Barnes
    George Barnes was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, earning multiple Academy Award nominations and one win.
  • C. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • D. William Belton
    William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
  • E. Thomas Parkhurst
    Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
  • 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_69ab495c44d48190b7235b23719bc3f6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc99b95548190b77d36de9adfe3bb completed March 7, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aebf637be4819096874a24e87f84ab completed March 9, 2026, 12:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aec7698e9881909c75137cb5cf2a0c completed March 9, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aec87df0648190b8099b4eaa3d9b22 completed March 9, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.