Triple
T432950
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Howard County, Iowa |
E9752
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Tilghman Ashurst Howard
Tilghman Ashurst Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and U.S. congressman from Indiana who also served as a diplomat to Texas.
|
E96077
|
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: Tilghman Ashurst Howard | Statement: [Howard County, Iowa, namedAfter, Tilghman Ashurst Howard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tilghman Ashurst Howard Context triple: [Howard County, Iowa, namedAfter, Tilghman Ashurst Howard]
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A.
Ashbel Green
Ashbel Green was an American Presbyterian minister, educator, and eighth president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), influential in early 19th-century religious and academic life.
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B.
Cecil H. Green
Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
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C.
Louis Skidmore
Louis Skidmore was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which helped shape modernist architecture in the 20th century.
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D.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
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E.
Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics pioneer, Stanford professor, and Turing Award–winning researcher best known for co-founding Tableau and his influential work on rendering and visualization.
- 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: Tilghman Ashurst Howard Triple: [Howard County, Iowa, namedAfter, Tilghman Ashurst Howard]
Generated description
Tilghman Ashurst Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and U.S. congressman from Indiana who also served as a diplomat to Texas.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tilghman Ashurst Howard Target entity description: Tilghman Ashurst Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and U.S. congressman from Indiana who also served as a diplomat to Texas.
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A.
Ashbel Green
Ashbel Green was an American Presbyterian minister, educator, and eighth president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), influential in early 19th-century religious and academic life.
-
B.
Cecil H. Green
Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
-
C.
Louis Skidmore
Louis Skidmore was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which helped shape modernist architecture in the 20th century.
-
D.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
-
E.
Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics pioneer, Stanford professor, and Turing Award–winning researcher best known for co-founding Tableau and his influential work on rendering and visualization.
- 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_69a2e801e1d48190b505d1dd336b52ac |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ef084840819080653004b674cba8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a76d6061508190b6fd3c907107fc63 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a78328882881908d25e2fec0909da6 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 12:56 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a7839196fc819097800de8c360cef9 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 12:57 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.