Triple
T4904218
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Fairfax family |
E109875
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entity |
| Predicate | hasNotableMember |
P304
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FINISHED |
| Object |
William Fairfax
William Fairfax was an 18th-century Virginia planter, colonial official, and prominent member of the influential Fairfax family, known for his role in managing the Northern Neck Proprietary and his connection to George Washington.
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E478967
|
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 Fairfax | Statement: [Fairfax family, hasNotableMember, William Fairfax]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Fairfax Context triple: [Fairfax family, hasNotableMember, William Fairfax]
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A.
John Wayles
John Wayles was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and slave trader best known as the father of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson and the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson.
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B.
Thomas Ludwell Lee
Thomas Ludwell Lee was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and politician who played a role in the early governance of colonial and revolutionary Virginia.
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C.
Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt
Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt was an 18th-century British colonial governor of Virginia remembered for his popular administration and for having several American counties and institutions named in his honor.
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D.
Northern Neck
Northern Neck is a historic peninsula in eastern Virginia between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, known as the birthplace region of several U.S. presidents and for its rural, waterfront character.
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E.
Arlington House plantation
Arlington House plantation was a historic Virginia estate overlooking the Potomac River that later became the core of what is now Arlington National Cemetery.
- 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 Fairfax Triple: [Fairfax family, hasNotableMember, William Fairfax]
Generated description
William Fairfax was an 18th-century Virginia planter, colonial official, and prominent member of the influential Fairfax family, known for his role in managing the Northern Neck Proprietary and his connection to George Washington.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Fairfax Target entity description: William Fairfax was an 18th-century Virginia planter, colonial official, and prominent member of the influential Fairfax family, known for his role in managing the Northern Neck Proprietary and his connection to George Washington.
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A.
John Wayles
John Wayles was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and slave trader best known as the father of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson and the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson.
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B.
Thomas Ludwell Lee
Thomas Ludwell Lee was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and politician who played a role in the early governance of colonial and revolutionary Virginia.
-
C.
Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt
Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt was an 18th-century British colonial governor of Virginia remembered for his popular administration and for having several American counties and institutions named in his honor.
-
D.
Northern Neck
Northern Neck is a historic peninsula in eastern Virginia between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, known as the birthplace region of several U.S. presidents and for its rural, waterfront character.
-
E.
Arlington House plantation
Arlington House plantation was a historic Virginia estate overlooking the Potomac River that later became the core of what is now Arlington National Cemetery.
- 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_69bd441180708190ba42ffb44fea533a |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6e6fdeac81909092f51ae40ad20e |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:57 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be6fdaaf588190a180d0bf5979c2d2 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:15 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69be70b15c508190bcd723862b8e9633 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:19 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69be7139a288819087598a7da8c6ad42 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:21 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:29 p.m.