Triple
T4086892
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hepburn Act |
E87608
|
entity |
| Predicate | sponsor |
P67
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Peters Hepburn |
E413678
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Peters Hepburn | Statement: [Hepburn Act, sponsor, William Peters Hepburn]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Peters Hepburn Context triple: [Hepburn Act, sponsor, William Peters Hepburn]
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A.
William Peters Hepburn
chosen
William Peters Hepburn was an American Republican congressman from Iowa best known for his leadership in railroad regulation and sponsorship of the landmark Hepburn Act of 1906.
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B.
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
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C.
Richard Russell Sr.
Richard Russell Sr. was an American politician and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and was the father of influential U.S. Senator Richard Russell Jr.
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D.
Richard Russell Jr.
Richard Russell Jr. was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Georgia who led Southern opposition to civil rights legislation and shaped national defense and agricultural policy.
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E.
Robert Fullerton
Robert Fullerton was a British colonial administrator best known as the inaugural Governor of the Straits Settlements in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69aed94425148190be337845d56fac22 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefc7ceeb48190807f0f5078ccfa12 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:59 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5769bafbc8190b14fb80b663b3747 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 2:54 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:39 p.m.