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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.