Triple

T7383331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ford County, Illinois E170317 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Ford, 8th Governor of Illinois
Thomas Ford was a 19th-century American politician and jurist who served as the eighth governor of Illinois, noted for his role in stabilizing the state’s finances and his history of Illinois.
 E659854 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: Thomas Ford, 8th Governor of Illinois | Statement: [Ford County, Illinois, namedAfter, Thomas Ford, 8th Governor of Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Ford, 8th Governor of Illinois
Context triple: [Ford County, Illinois, namedAfter, Thomas Ford, 8th Governor of Illinois]
  • A. Illinois Governor Richard J. Oglesby
    Illinois Governor Richard J. Oglesby was a three-term Republican governor and Civil War general known for his role in the aftermath of the Haymarket affair, including the commutation of several defendants’ death sentences.
  • B. Oliver P. Morton
    Oliver P. Morton was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator, noted for his strong Unionist and Republican leadership.
  • C. J. B. Pritzker
    J. B. Pritzker is an American billionaire businessman and Democratic politician who serves as the governor of Illinois.
  • D. John Peter Altgeld
    John Peter Altgeld was a Progressive-era Governor of Illinois (1893–1897) best known for his controversial pardon of three Haymarket Affair defendants and his advocacy for labor and social justice reforms.
  • E. Frank F. Patterson
    Frank F. Patterson was an American military aviator and early U.S. Army Air Service officer after whom Patterson Field (now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) was named following his death in a 1918 flight accident.
  • 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: Thomas Ford, 8th Governor of Illinois
Triple: [Ford County, Illinois, namedAfter, Thomas Ford, 8th Governor of Illinois]
Generated description
Thomas Ford was a 19th-century American politician and jurist who served as the eighth governor of Illinois, noted for his role in stabilizing the state’s finances and his history of Illinois.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Ford, 8th Governor of Illinois
Target entity description: Thomas Ford was a 19th-century American politician and jurist who served as the eighth governor of Illinois, noted for his role in stabilizing the state’s finances and his history of Illinois.
  • A. Illinois Governor Richard J. Oglesby
    Illinois Governor Richard J. Oglesby was a three-term Republican governor and Civil War general known for his role in the aftermath of the Haymarket affair, including the commutation of several defendants’ death sentences.
  • B. Oliver P. Morton
    Oliver P. Morton was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator, noted for his strong Unionist and Republican leadership.
  • C. J. B. Pritzker
    J. B. Pritzker is an American billionaire businessman and Democratic politician who serves as the governor of Illinois.
  • D. John Peter Altgeld
    John Peter Altgeld was a Progressive-era Governor of Illinois (1893–1897) best known for his controversial pardon of three Haymarket Affair defendants and his advocacy for labor and social justice reforms.
  • E. Frank F. Patterson
    Frank F. Patterson was an American military aviator and early U.S. Army Air Service officer after whom Patterson Field (now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) was named following his death in a 1918 flight accident.
  • 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_69c68a5d0ed08190b6d361e68f813330 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f1cb0b8881908132383c0efb0503 completed March 27, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c802dee7448190be1835bd822b9180 completed March 28, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c80362bcb88190ad8c42f520d7dd56 completed March 28, 2026, 4:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c803da5e2c819098814b16d14cf837 completed March 28, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:08 p.m.