Triple

T8523934
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Petersburg, Virginia E201763 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Peter Jones (colonial merchant)
Peter Jones was a colonial-era merchant and early settler in Virginia whose prominence in the region led to the city of Petersburg being named in his honor.
E739027 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: Peter Jones (colonial merchant) | Statement: [Petersburg, Virginia, namedAfter, Peter Jones (colonial merchant)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Jones (colonial merchant)
Context triple: [Petersburg, Virginia, namedAfter, Peter Jones (colonial merchant)]
  • A. Thomas Paine (merchant)
    Thomas Paine (merchant) was a colonial-era American trader and the father of Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
  • B. Samuel Pearson
    Samuel Pearson was a British entrepreneur and publisher best known for establishing the company that evolved into the global education and publishing corporation Pearson plc.
  • C. William Pulteney
    William Pulteney was an 18th-century British politician and landowner, notably associated with the development of Bath, England, where the Pulteney Bridge commemorates his influence.
  • D. Stephen Wilkinson
    Stephen Wilkinson is a British conductor and choral director known for his influential work with the BBC Northern Singers and contributions to choral music in the 20th century.
  • E. Samuel Blatchford
    Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
  • 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: Peter Jones (colonial merchant)
Triple: [Petersburg, Virginia, namedAfter, Peter Jones (colonial merchant)]
Generated description
Peter Jones was a colonial-era merchant and early settler in Virginia whose prominence in the region led to the city of Petersburg being named in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Jones (colonial merchant)
Target entity description: Peter Jones was a colonial-era merchant and early settler in Virginia whose prominence in the region led to the city of Petersburg being named in his honor.
  • A. Thomas Paine (merchant)
    Thomas Paine (merchant) was a colonial-era American trader and the father of Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
  • B. Samuel Pearson
    Samuel Pearson was a British entrepreneur and publisher best known for establishing the company that evolved into the global education and publishing corporation Pearson plc.
  • C. William Pulteney
    William Pulteney was an 18th-century British politician and landowner, notably associated with the development of Bath, England, where the Pulteney Bridge commemorates his influence.
  • D. Stephen Wilkinson
    Stephen Wilkinson is a British conductor and choral director known for his influential work with the BBC Northern Singers and contributions to choral music in the 20th century.
  • E. Samuel Blatchford
    Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
  • 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_69ca8321bb44819081b74df0b710276d completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe64362c88190b978a2544eec6e3e completed March 31, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce4e9219108190979430a4308fc4c5 completed April 2, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce5028c38c81908e81390d0be21387 completed April 2, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce517fea7c819098d0343fd2c4ccdd completed April 2, 2026, 11:22 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:16 p.m.