Triple

T6918286
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portsmouth, Virginia E160117 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Colonel William Crawford
Colonel William Crawford was an 18th-century American military officer and land speculator who played a key role in the early development of what became Portsmouth, Virginia.
E628436 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: Colonel William Crawford | Statement: [Portsmouth, Virginia, foundedBy, Colonel William Crawford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel William Crawford
Context triple: [Portsmouth, Virginia, foundedBy, Colonel William Crawford]
  • A. Lucius A. Bigelow
    Lucius A. Bigelow was a notable individual associated with the Bigelow family or lineage, recognized for his prominence or contributions in his field or community.
  • B. Colonel John Quincy
    Colonel John Quincy was an American colonial military officer and prominent Massachusetts politician whose legacy includes being the namesake of both the city of Quincy and President John Quincy Adams.
  • C. William C. Maybury
    William C. Maybury was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Detroit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Edward Beale
    Edward Beale was a 19th-century American naval officer, explorer, and frontiersman known for his surveying expeditions and contributions to the development of the American West.
  • E. James Wilkinson
    James Wilkinson was an American soldier and politician who served as a senior officer in the U.S. Army while secretly acting as a paid agent of the Spanish Empire, making him one of the most controversial figures in early United States history.
  • 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: Colonel William Crawford
Triple: [Portsmouth, Virginia, foundedBy, Colonel William Crawford]
Generated description
Colonel William Crawford was an 18th-century American military officer and land speculator who played a key role in the early development of what became Portsmouth, Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel William Crawford
Target entity description: Colonel William Crawford was an 18th-century American military officer and land speculator who played a key role in the early development of what became Portsmouth, Virginia.
  • A. Lucius A. Bigelow
    Lucius A. Bigelow was a notable individual associated with the Bigelow family or lineage, recognized for his prominence or contributions in his field or community.
  • B. Colonel John Quincy
    Colonel John Quincy was an American colonial military officer and prominent Massachusetts politician whose legacy includes being the namesake of both the city of Quincy and President John Quincy Adams.
  • C. William C. Maybury
    William C. Maybury was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Detroit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Edward Beale
    Edward Beale was a 19th-century American naval officer, explorer, and frontiersman known for his surveying expeditions and contributions to the development of the American West.
  • E. James Wilkinson
    James Wilkinson was an American soldier and politician who served as a senior officer in the U.S. Army while secretly acting as a paid agent of the Spanish Empire, making him one of the most controversial figures in early United States history.
  • 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_69c6883ab1008190a07129ff06f625d9 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d9e17ea08190b8c4142af8adfba0 completed March 27, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7512f7fac81908d0891f4de301535 completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c751db72408190b89e2ab08730ca43 completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c75264e65081908859551feaf1006c completed March 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:26 p.m.