Triple

T5851292
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James E. Shepard E130036 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object James Edward Shepard
James Edward Shepard was an American educator and founder of North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s historically Black universities.
E550592 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: James Edward Shepard | Statement: [James E. Shepard, fullName, James Edward Shepard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Edward Shepard
Context triple: [James E. Shepard, fullName, James Edward Shepard]
  • A. Isaiah Edwards
    Isaiah Edwards is a rugged, kind-hearted frontiersman and close family friend of the Ingalls in the "Little House on the Prairie" series.
  • B. James Staniford
    James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
  • C. James Edward Rice
    James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • D. Jeremiah Jones Colbath
    Jeremiah Jones Colbath was the original name of Henry Wilson, a 19th-century American politician who became Vice President of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
  • E. Fredrick Jamel Tipton
    Fredrick Jamel Tipton is an American rapper and songwriter better known by his stage name Freddie Gibbs, recognized for his gritty lyricism and collaborations across underground and mainstream hip-hop.
  • 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: James Edward Shepard
Triple: [James E. Shepard, fullName, James Edward Shepard]
Generated description
James Edward Shepard was an American educator and founder of North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s historically Black universities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Edward Shepard
Target entity description: James Edward Shepard was an American educator and founder of North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s historically Black universities.
  • A. Isaiah Edwards
    Isaiah Edwards is a rugged, kind-hearted frontiersman and close family friend of the Ingalls in the "Little House on the Prairie" series.
  • B. James Staniford
    James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
  • C. James Edward Rice
    James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • D. Jeremiah Jones Colbath
    Jeremiah Jones Colbath was the original name of Henry Wilson, a 19th-century American politician who became Vice President of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
  • E. Fredrick Jamel Tipton
    Fredrick Jamel Tipton is an American rapper and songwriter better known by his stage name Freddie Gibbs, recognized for his gritty lyricism and collaborations across underground and mainstream hip-hop.
  • 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_69c0084de39081909eb34e6bed74215a completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c035176c8c81909e24d263e4feb664 completed March 22, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0a1b3c7d08190bada8ae35e7fa8eb completed March 23, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0a234f0dc819098a889bd5ee87722 completed March 23, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0a2b1df0c8190b63d5ca984439b0b completed March 23, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:55 p.m.