Triple

T8937294
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Hendricks E212808 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Secretary of State of Indiana Territory
The Secretary of State of Indiana Territory was the chief administrative and record-keeping officer of the territorial government prior to Indiana’s statehood.
E767607 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: Secretary of State of Indiana Territory | Statement: [William Hendricks, positionHeld, Secretary of State of Indiana Territory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Secretary of State of Indiana Territory
Context triple: [William Hendricks, positionHeld, Secretary of State of Indiana Territory]
  • A. Secretary of the Oregon Territory
    The Secretary of the Oregon Territory was a key U.S. territorial official responsible for maintaining government records, handling official correspondence, and often serving as acting governor in the mid-19th century Pacific Northwest territory.
  • B. Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
    The Lieutenant Governor of Indiana is the state's second-highest executive officer, who presides over the Indiana Senate and often oversees key areas such as agriculture, rural affairs, and economic development.
  • C. Attorney General of the Southwest Territory
    The Attorney General of the Southwest Territory was the chief legal officer and prosecutor for the Southwest Territory of the early United States, responsible for representing the territorial government in legal matters before Tennessee achieved statehood.
  • D. Governor of Indiana
    The Governor of Indiana is the state's chief executive, responsible for overseeing the executive branch, implementing state laws, and guiding public policy and the budget.
  • E. Governor of the Northwest Territory
    The Governor of the Northwest Territory was the chief executive appointed by the U.S. federal government to administer and oversee the early governance, settlement, and legal affairs of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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: Secretary of State of Indiana Territory
Triple: [William Hendricks, positionHeld, Secretary of State of Indiana Territory]
Generated description
The Secretary of State of Indiana Territory was the chief administrative and record-keeping officer of the territorial government prior to Indiana’s statehood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Secretary of State of Indiana Territory
Target entity description: The Secretary of State of Indiana Territory was the chief administrative and record-keeping officer of the territorial government prior to Indiana’s statehood.
  • A. Secretary of the Oregon Territory
    The Secretary of the Oregon Territory was a key U.S. territorial official responsible for maintaining government records, handling official correspondence, and often serving as acting governor in the mid-19th century Pacific Northwest territory.
  • B. Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
    The Lieutenant Governor of Indiana is the state's second-highest executive officer, who presides over the Indiana Senate and often oversees key areas such as agriculture, rural affairs, and economic development.
  • C. Attorney General of the Southwest Territory
    The Attorney General of the Southwest Territory was the chief legal officer and prosecutor for the Southwest Territory of the early United States, responsible for representing the territorial government in legal matters before Tennessee achieved statehood.
  • D. Governor of Indiana
    The Governor of Indiana is the state's chief executive, responsible for overseeing the executive branch, implementing state laws, and guiding public policy and the budget.
  • E. Governor of the Northwest Territory
    The Governor of the Northwest Territory was the chief executive appointed by the U.S. federal government to administer and oversee the early governance, settlement, and legal affairs of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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_69ca839694c88190b324ffeb43d23b08 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc66b3628881909544507628980c25 completed April 1, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc1e692548190b631c4926927d12f completed April 3, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfc2b23be0819089503ca761f3f0b4 completed April 3, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfc3731fbc8190bd3efc9a9786d078 completed April 3, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:58 p.m.