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]
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A.
Thomas Prosser
Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
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B.
James Cullen Landis
James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.