Triple
T8961409
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York |
E214013
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasNotableBurial |
P196
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Edward H. Butler Jr. |
E769078
|
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: Edward H. Butler Jr. | Statement: [Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York, hasNotableBurial, Edward H. Butler Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward H. Butler Jr. Context triple: [Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York, hasNotableBurial, Edward H. Butler Jr.]
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A.
Edward H. Butler Sr.
chosen
Edward H. Butler Sr. was a prominent American newspaper publisher and editor, best known for owning and leading the Buffalo Evening News.
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B.
Joseph G. Butler Jr.
Joseph G. Butler Jr. was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known for his patronage of the arts and cultural institutions in Youngstown, Ohio.
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C.
Andrew P. Butler
Andrew P. Butler was a pro-slavery U.S. senator from South Carolina whose strong support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act and slavery made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the Bleeding Kansas crisis.
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D.
James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
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E.
Milton J. Durham
Milton J. Durham was a 19th-century American lawyer and Democratic politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as a senior federal financial official.
- 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_69ca839cd6008190a1546a701a56710c |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc6748baa88190ac54e701dc4d6212 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:31 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfdb887378819093a48d7035609951 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 3:23 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7 p.m.