Triple

T8635556
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael W. Smith E204514 entity
Predicate birthPlace P1 FINISHED
Object Kenova, West Virginia, United States
Kenova is a small town in western West Virginia, United States, known as the hometown of contemporary Christian music artist Michael W. Smith.
 E747720 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: Kenova, West Virginia, United States | Statement: [Michael W. Smith, birthPlace, Kenova, West Virginia, United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kenova, West Virginia, United States
Context triple: [Michael W. Smith, birthPlace, Kenova, West Virginia, United States]
  • A. Enterprise, West Virginia
    Enterprise, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in Harrison County in north-central West Virginia.
  • B. Fairmont, West Virginia, United States
    Fairmont, West Virginia, United States, is a small city in north-central West Virginia known as the birthplace of Olympic gold medal–winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton.
  • C. Comfort, West Virginia
    Comfort, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in Boone County in the southern part of the state.
  • D. Sandstone, West Virginia
    Sandstone, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community in Summers County known for its proximity to the New River and the Sandstone Falls area of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.
  • E. McMechen, West Virginia
    McMechen, West Virginia, is a small city along the Ohio River in the state's Northern Panhandle, forming part of the Wheeling metropolitan area.
  • 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: Kenova, West Virginia, United States
Triple: [Michael W. Smith, birthPlace, Kenova, West Virginia, United States]
Generated description
Kenova is a small town in western West Virginia, United States, known as the hometown of contemporary Christian music artist Michael W. Smith.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kenova, West Virginia, United States
Target entity description: Kenova is a small town in western West Virginia, United States, known as the hometown of contemporary Christian music artist Michael W. Smith.
  • A. Enterprise, West Virginia
    Enterprise, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in Harrison County in north-central West Virginia.
  • B. Fairmont, West Virginia, United States
    Fairmont, West Virginia, United States, is a small city in north-central West Virginia known as the birthplace of Olympic gold medal–winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton.
  • C. Comfort, West Virginia
    Comfort, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in Boone County in the southern part of the state.
  • D. Sandstone, West Virginia
    Sandstone, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community in Summers County known for its proximity to the New River and the Sandstone Falls area of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.
  • E. McMechen, West Virginia
    McMechen, West Virginia, is a small city along the Ohio River in the state's Northern Panhandle, forming part of the Wheeling metropolitan area.
  • 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_69ca834b903c8190add96cc651e1a477 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc4760fa448190862c886bc5a6ec10 completed March 31, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cebc1b330c81909ff8a6806401dfd1 completed April 2, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cebd2cb2e481909a2862e79482c37a completed April 2, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cebdd77b6c81908c35ee96dfe053d8 completed April 2, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:27 p.m.