Triple

T3517472
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Clark E74341 entity
Predicate placeOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object Caroline County, Colony of Virginia
Caroline County in the Colony of Virginia was an 18th-century Virginia county notable as the rural birthplace of explorer William Clark and part of the broader colonial plantation society.
 E365798 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: Caroline County, Colony of Virginia | Statement: [William Clark, placeOfBirth, Caroline County, Colony of Virginia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Caroline County, Colony of Virginia
Context triple: [William Clark, placeOfBirth, Caroline County, Colony of Virginia]
  • A. Stafford County, Colony of Virginia
    Stafford County, Colony of Virginia was a colonial-era county in northern Virginia that formed part of the early English settlements in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • B. New Kent County, Colony of Virginia
    New Kent County, Colony of Virginia was a colonial-era county in eastern Virginia that served as an important agricultural and plantation region during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • C. Hanover County, Colony of Virginia
    Hanover County in the Colony of Virginia was an 18th-century Virginia county known as the birthplace and early home of several prominent American Revolutionary figures.
  • D. Buckingham County, Virginia Colony
    Buckingham County, Virginia Colony was an 18th-century administrative region in colonial Virginia that later became part of the U.S. state of Virginia.
  • E. Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia
    Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia was an 18th-century county in colonial Virginia notable as the rural birthplace of explorer Meriwether Lewis and later associated with figures like Thomas Jefferson.
  • 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: Caroline County, Colony of Virginia
Triple: [William Clark, placeOfBirth, Caroline County, Colony of Virginia]
Generated description
Caroline County in the Colony of Virginia was an 18th-century Virginia county notable as the rural birthplace of explorer William Clark and part of the broader colonial plantation society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Caroline County, Colony of Virginia
Target entity description: Caroline County in the Colony of Virginia was an 18th-century Virginia county notable as the rural birthplace of explorer William Clark and part of the broader colonial plantation society.
  • A. Stafford County, Colony of Virginia
    Stafford County, Colony of Virginia was a colonial-era county in northern Virginia that formed part of the early English settlements in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • B. New Kent County, Colony of Virginia
    New Kent County, Colony of Virginia was a colonial-era county in eastern Virginia that served as an important agricultural and plantation region during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • C. Hanover County, Colony of Virginia
    Hanover County in the Colony of Virginia was an 18th-century Virginia county known as the birthplace and early home of several prominent American Revolutionary figures.
  • D. Buckingham County, Virginia Colony
    Buckingham County, Virginia Colony was an 18th-century administrative region in colonial Virginia that later became part of the U.S. state of Virginia.
  • E. Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia
    Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia was an 18th-century county in colonial Virginia notable as the rural birthplace of explorer Meriwether Lewis and later associated with figures like Thomas Jefferson.
  • 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_69ad85cfb5c881909c9a2edd9d6043cc completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbc32f90081908960acb3e94402be completed March 8, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b37e80cd588190ae012f151ef59c52 completed March 13, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b37ef902208190842ddbe6427ca42b completed March 13, 2026, 3:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b382b43b708190be7ae3d44b0a393a completed March 13, 2026, 3:21 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.