Triple

T2988545
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States E80688 entity
Predicate notableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object John Henry Boalt
John Henry Boalt was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge in California whose name later became controversial due to his openly racist views, prompting modern efforts to remove his name from institutions.
E316015 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: John Henry Boalt | Statement: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States, notableBurial, John Henry Boalt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Henry Boalt
Context triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States, notableBurial, John Henry Boalt]
  • A. Thomas Prosser
    Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
  • B. James Cullen Landis
    James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • C. Philo P. Stewart
    Philo P. Stewart was a 19th-century American missionary and religious reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College, a pioneering institution in coeducation and abolitionism.
  • D. William P. Frye
    William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
  • E. James M. Landis
    James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: John Henry Boalt
Triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States, notableBurial, John Henry Boalt]
Generated description
John Henry Boalt was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge in California whose name later became controversial due to his openly racist views, prompting modern efforts to remove his name from institutions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Henry Boalt
Target entity description: John Henry Boalt was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge in California whose name later became controversial due to his openly racist views, prompting modern efforts to remove his name from institutions.
  • A. Thomas Prosser
    Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
  • B. James Cullen Landis
    James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • C. Philo P. Stewart
    Philo P. Stewart was a 19th-century American missionary and religious reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College, a pioneering institution in coeducation and abolitionism.
  • D. William P. Frye
    William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
  • E. James M. Landis
    James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69ad8b16c3488190b47b6aa7a59a335b completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad99c9cdd081908fa8094a3ac1f8d3 completed March 8, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b108fe2568819083a8f97b37dc8340 completed March 11, 2026, 6:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b10b8230b08190b9b572a81b3cf094 completed March 11, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b10bc9d6648190bfb161bc7699926e completed March 11, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:59 p.m.