Triple

T2925828
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McDowell County, West Virginia E78839 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object James McDowell
James McDowell was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 E318700 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: James McDowell | Statement: [McDowell County, West Virginia, namedAfter, James McDowell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James McDowell
Context triple: [McDowell County, West Virginia, namedAfter, James McDowell]
  • A. Thomas McElwee
    Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
  • B. Thomas McGuire
    Thomas McGuire was a highly decorated American World War II fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his aerial combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • C. John McDonough
    John McDonough was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl IV.
  • D. Joseph McHardy
    Joseph McHardy is a musician and choral director known for his work with prominent British church and cathedral choirs.
  • E. Michael McDowell
    Michael McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Southern Gothic horror fiction and for writing the screenplay for the film "Beetlejuice."
  • 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: James McDowell
Triple: [McDowell County, West Virginia, namedAfter, James McDowell]
Generated description
James McDowell was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James McDowell
Target entity description: James McDowell was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • A. Thomas McElwee
    Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
  • B. Thomas McGuire
    Thomas McGuire was a highly decorated American World War II fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his aerial combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • C. John McDonough
    John McDonough was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl IV.
  • D. Joseph McHardy
    Joseph McHardy is a musician and choral director known for his work with prominent British church and cathedral choirs.
  • E. Michael McDowell
    Michael McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Southern Gothic horror fiction and for writing the screenplay for the film "Beetlejuice."
  • 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_69ad8b0d40b481908bc2a5fa2e73c3fb completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad97c1e9c08190bcec80bc3262697a completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12e181898819087ed4acfd24c00a1 completed March 11, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b12f188c7c81908d1d575252dc4bda completed March 11, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1c9bccb3081909e6869b5cba68117 completed March 11, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:55 p.m.