Triple

T2528830
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butler University E56105 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Ovid Butler
Ovid Butler was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and philanthropist who played a key role in advancing education and social reform in Indiana.
E280698 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: Ovid Butler | Statement: [Butler University, founder, Ovid Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ovid Butler
Context triple: [Butler University, founder, Ovid Butler]
  • A. Thomas Barlow Walker
    Thomas Barlow Walker was an American lumber baron, art collector, and philanthropist who founded the collection that became the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
  • B. Horace Albert McKinney
    Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Horace Walker
    Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
  • E. John Billington
    John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
  • 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: Ovid Butler
Triple: [Butler University, founder, Ovid Butler]
Generated description
Ovid Butler was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and philanthropist who played a key role in advancing education and social reform in Indiana.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ovid Butler
Target entity description: Ovid Butler was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and philanthropist who played a key role in advancing education and social reform in Indiana.
  • A. Thomas Barlow Walker
    Thomas Barlow Walker was an American lumber baron, art collector, and philanthropist who founded the collection that became the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
  • B. Horace Albert McKinney
    Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Horace Walker
    Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
  • E. John Billington
    John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
  • 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_69ab4a48e4f081908f1218d244608659 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd25903f08190b46e12d32278daca completed March 7, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af83921d3481909f7bf43b3300056c completed March 10, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af8421dae081909fd8c7ac37cd96f3 completed March 10, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af8487bcac819085b6f5827a48696a completed March 10, 2026, 2:40 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:46 p.m.