Triple

T386831
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colony and Dominion of Virginia E8796 entity
Predicate legislativeBody P239 FINISHED
Object House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first elected representative legislative assembly in colonial North America, serving as the lower house of Virginia’s colonial legislature.
E48686 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: House of Burgesses | Statement: [Colony and Dominion of Virginia, legislativeBody, House of Burgesses]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: House of Burgesses
Context triple: [Colony and Dominion of Virginia, legislativeBody, House of Burgesses]
  • A. Colonial Assembly of Maryland
    The Colonial Assembly of Maryland was the legislative body of the Province of Maryland during the colonial era, responsible for making local laws and governing alongside the colonial governor and council.
  • B. New York Colonial Assembly
    The New York Colonial Assembly was the elected legislative body of the Province of New York under British rule, responsible for making local laws and representing colonists before the American Revolution.
  • C. New York Provincial Congress
    The New York Provincial Congress was a revolutionary governing body that assumed control of New York’s political affairs from the colonial authorities during the American Revolution.
  • D. Massachusetts colonial legislature
    The Massachusetts colonial legislature was the governing body of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the colonial era, responsible for making laws, levying taxes, and overseeing public institutions in the colony.
  • E. Virginia Convention
    The Virginia Convention was a revolutionary assembly of delegates in the Colony of Virginia that assumed governance from royal authorities and played a key role in leading the colony toward independence from Britain.
  • 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: House of Burgesses
Triple: [Colony and Dominion of Virginia, legislativeBody, House of Burgesses]
Generated description
The House of Burgesses was the first elected representative legislative assembly in colonial North America, serving as the lower house of Virginia’s colonial legislature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: House of Burgesses
Target entity description: The House of Burgesses was the first elected representative legislative assembly in colonial North America, serving as the lower house of Virginia’s colonial legislature.
  • A. Colonial Assembly of Maryland
    The Colonial Assembly of Maryland was the legislative body of the Province of Maryland during the colonial era, responsible for making local laws and governing alongside the colonial governor and council.
  • B. New York Colonial Assembly
    The New York Colonial Assembly was the elected legislative body of the Province of New York under British rule, responsible for making local laws and representing colonists before the American Revolution.
  • C. New York Provincial Congress
    The New York Provincial Congress was a revolutionary governing body that assumed control of New York’s political affairs from the colonial authorities during the American Revolution.
  • D. Massachusetts colonial legislature
    The Massachusetts colonial legislature was the governing body of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the colonial era, responsible for making laws, levying taxes, and overseeing public institutions in the colony.
  • E. Virginia Convention
    The Virginia Convention was a revolutionary assembly of delegates in the Colony of Virginia that assumed governance from royal authorities and played a key role in leading the colony toward independence from Britain.
  • 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_69a2e7f47dd08190a4e294ccbbe46cd4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec447b5481908a5a084787b44ced completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3fe9755c08190a6f046ca56531df5 completed March 1, 2026, 8:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3ff1563688190bd5a41ea3c4726a5 completed March 1, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3ffb7c1f8819084d07b54e1688290 completed March 1, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.