Triple

T7984
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Durham, North Carolina E158 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Bartlett S. Durham
Bartlett S. Durham was a 19th-century physician and landowner whose donated land for a railroad depot led to the founding and naming of the city of Durham, North Carolina.
 E20534 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: Bartlett S. Durham | Statement: [Durham, North Carolina, namedAfter, Bartlett S. Durham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bartlett S. Durham
Context triple: [Durham, North Carolina, namedAfter, Bartlett S. Durham]
  • A. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • B. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • C. Richmond K. Turner
    Richmond K. Turner was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II, best known for his pivotal role in planning and directing major amphibious operations in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. Mervin J. Kelly
    Mervin J. Kelly was an American physicist and influential Bell Labs executive known for his leadership in advancing telecommunications and solid-state research.
  • E. George W. Thorn
    George W. Thorn was a prominent American physician and medical researcher known for major contributions to endocrinology and internal medicine.
  • 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: Bartlett S. Durham
Triple: [Durham, North Carolina, namedAfter, Bartlett S. Durham]
Generated description
Bartlett S. Durham was a 19th-century physician and landowner whose donated land for a railroad depot led to the founding and naming of the city of Durham, North Carolina.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bartlett S. Durham
Target entity description: Bartlett S. Durham was a 19th-century physician and landowner whose donated land for a railroad depot led to the founding and naming of the city of Durham, North Carolina.
  • A. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • B. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • C. Richmond K. Turner
    Richmond K. Turner was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II, best known for his pivotal role in planning and directing major amphibious operations in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. Mervin J. Kelly
    Mervin J. Kelly was an American physicist and influential Bell Labs executive known for his leadership in advancing telecommunications and solid-state research.
  • E. George W. Thorn
    George W. Thorn was a prominent American physician and medical researcher known for major contributions to endocrinology and internal medicine.
  • 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_69a23bb612708190b09f25385e4b63d1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a23ff1903c8190a7d1051b4795eecd completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2db4f527c819094ab6b1705358022 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2dbe74360819088144588457c40f6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2dca71f0c819091bffb34a2dc0b90 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 12:54 a.m.