Triple

T635125
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Marshall E16606 entity
Predicate placeOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America
Germantown, in the Colony of Virginia in British America, was a small 18th-century Virginian settlement notable as the birthplace of future U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall.
E79729 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: Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America | Statement: [John Marshall, placeOfBirth, Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America
Context triple: [John Marshall, placeOfBirth, Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America]
  • A. Shadwell, Virginia Colony
    Shadwell, Virginia Colony was an 18th-century plantation community in Albemarle County best known as the birthplace and early home of Thomas Jefferson.
  • B. Town of Yorktown
    The Town of Yorktown is a suburban municipality in northern Westchester County, New York, known for its residential communities, parks, and reservoirs within the New York City watershed.
  • C. Colony and Dominion of Virginia
    The Colony and Dominion of Virginia was a major English and later British colony in North America, notable as the first permanent English settlement and a political and economic center that helped shape early American history.
  • D. Eastern Settlement
    Eastern Settlement was the largest and earliest Norse colony in southern Greenland, serving as the primary center of Greenlandic Norse life during the medieval period.
  • E. Colony of Maryland
    The Colony of Maryland was a 17th- and 18th-century English (later British) proprietary colony in North America, founded as a haven for English Catholics and centered around the Chesapeake Bay region.
  • 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: Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America
Triple: [John Marshall, placeOfBirth, Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America]
Generated description
Germantown, in the Colony of Virginia in British America, was a small 18th-century Virginian settlement notable as the birthplace of future U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America
Target entity description: Germantown, in the Colony of Virginia in British America, was a small 18th-century Virginian settlement notable as the birthplace of future U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall.
  • A. Shadwell, Virginia Colony
    Shadwell, Virginia Colony was an 18th-century plantation community in Albemarle County best known as the birthplace and early home of Thomas Jefferson.
  • B. Town of Yorktown
    The Town of Yorktown is a suburban municipality in northern Westchester County, New York, known for its residential communities, parks, and reservoirs within the New York City watershed.
  • C. Colony and Dominion of Virginia
    The Colony and Dominion of Virginia was a major English and later British colony in North America, notable as the first permanent English settlement and a political and economic center that helped shape early American history.
  • D. Eastern Settlement
    Eastern Settlement was the largest and earliest Norse colony in southern Greenland, serving as the primary center of Greenlandic Norse life during the medieval period.
  • E. Colony of Maryland
    The Colony of Maryland was a 17th- and 18th-century English (later British) proprietary colony in North America, founded as a haven for English Catholics and centered around the Chesapeake Bay region.
  • 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49ee4ee8481908ad45405e3f3835c completed March 1, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a56ef25ffc81908517310fe0c84a68 completed March 2, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a56f5668108190910db85f3beb5eed completed March 2, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5733acb188190b4cdd12ed3a96860 completed March 2, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.