Triple

T2950401
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Forest Hills Cemetery E79805 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object William Cooper Nell
William Cooper Nell was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, journalist, and historian known for his pioneering works on Black American history and civil rights activism.
E314558 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: William Cooper Nell | Statement: [Forest Hills Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, William Cooper Nell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cooper Nell
Context triple: [Forest Hills Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, William Cooper Nell]
  • A. Martin Delany
    Martin Delany was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, writer, physician, and early Black nationalist leader who co-founded the antislavery newspaper The North Star with Frederick Douglass.
  • B. Henry Beard Delany
    Henry Beard Delany was an influential African-American Episcopal bishop and educator who became one of the first Black bishops in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
  • C. Samuel Cornish
    Samuel Cornish was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and admiral noted for his role in major naval operations during the Seven Years' War.
  • D. Wendell Phillips Garrison
    Wendell Phillips Garrison was an American editor and author best known for his long tenure as literary editor of The Nation and for advancing the reformist and abolitionist legacy of his family.
  • E. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • 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: William Cooper Nell
Triple: [Forest Hills Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, William Cooper Nell]
Generated description
William Cooper Nell was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, journalist, and historian known for his pioneering works on Black American history and civil rights activism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cooper Nell
Target entity description: William Cooper Nell was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, journalist, and historian known for his pioneering works on Black American history and civil rights activism.
  • A. Martin Delany
    Martin Delany was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, writer, physician, and early Black nationalist leader who co-founded the antislavery newspaper The North Star with Frederick Douglass.
  • B. Henry Beard Delany
    Henry Beard Delany was an influential African-American Episcopal bishop and educator who became one of the first Black bishops in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
  • C. Samuel Cornish
    Samuel Cornish was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and admiral noted for his role in major naval operations during the Seven Years' War.
  • D. Wendell Phillips Garrison
    Wendell Phillips Garrison was an American editor and author best known for his long tenure as literary editor of The Nation and for advancing the reformist and abolitionist legacy of his family.
  • E. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • 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_69ad8b1276588190a374a0b12e0f7bdf completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad98fbb7d4819081c241f3ff9165e5 completed March 8, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0fc79f6d081908d3bbd52439f4d31 completed March 11, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0fd07b82881908d52ab2db2f2e54c completed March 11, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0fdba0fd88190a2e760f1770e846c completed March 11, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:57 p.m.