Triple

T8711070
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Wesley Powell E206777 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Illinois State Normal University E426846 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Illinois State Normal University | Statement: [John Wesley Powell, employer, Illinois State Normal University]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Illinois State Normal University
Context triple: [John Wesley Powell, employer, Illinois State Normal University]
  • A. Illinois State Normal University chosen
    Illinois State Normal University was the original name of Illinois State University, a public institution in Normal, Illinois, that began as a teachers' college.
  • B. Iowa State Normal School
    Iowa State Normal School was a 19th-century teacher-training institution in Cedar Falls, Iowa, that later evolved into the University of Northern Iowa.
  • C. Western State Normal School
    Western State Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • D. Indiana Normal School
    Indiana Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
  • E. Illinois College
    Illinois College is a private liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois, known as one of the oldest colleges in the state and for its early involvement in abolitionist and reform movements.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ca83572d4881909bef3be2b578d539 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5c3189f88190bb9bb77ba9d28d60 completed March 31, 2026, 11:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf4290a25c81908f62e91b6d363419 completed April 3, 2026, 4:31 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:35 p.m.