Triple

T368007
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Indian Creek massacre E8205 entity
Predicate notableVictim P870 FINISHED
Object William Davis
William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
E57548 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 Davis | Statement: [Indian Creek massacre, notableVictim, William Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Davis
Context triple: [Indian Creek massacre, notableVictim, William Davis]
  • A. William Rogers
    William Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across history, including politicians, educators, and public figures.
  • B. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Charles Curtis
    Charles Curtis was an American politician and member of the Kaw Nation who served as the 31st vice president of the United States and was the first person of significant Native American ancestry to hold that office.
  • D. James Baker
    James Baker is an American statesman and Republican political figure who served in several top U.S. government roles, including White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, under multiple presidential administrations in the late 20th century.
  • E. Charles Franklin
    Charles Franklin is an American political scientist and pollster known for his work on public opinion, elections, and co-founding the polling aggregation site Pollster.com.
  • 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 Davis
Triple: [Indian Creek massacre, notableVictim, William Davis]
Generated description
William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Davis
Target entity description: William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
  • A. William Rogers
    William Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across history, including politicians, educators, and public figures.
  • B. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Charles Curtis
    Charles Curtis was an American politician and member of the Kaw Nation who served as the 31st vice president of the United States and was the first person of significant Native American ancestry to hold that office.
  • D. James Baker
    James Baker is an American statesman and Republican political figure who served in several top U.S. government roles, including White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, under multiple presidential administrations in the late 20th century.
  • E. Charles Franklin
    Charles Franklin is an American political scientist and pollster known for his work on public opinion, elections, and co-founding the polling aggregation site Pollster.com.
  • 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_69a2e7f2ec648190b42bc7db424f8109 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ebeab13c8190b15c2f10310ec6a8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a44f5030f481908af8aa1d361b8124 completed March 1, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a450099260819085493682035fc1c1 completed March 1, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4506406dc8190ba3d4e54c409051b completed March 1, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.