Triple

T13115092
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William O. Butler E311071 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Percival Butler
Percival Butler was a member of the prominent Butler family of Kentucky, known primarily as the son of U.S. Congressman and Mexican–American War general William O. Butler.
E1074464 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: Percival Butler | Statement: [William O. Butler, father, Percival Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Percival Butler
Context triple: [William O. Butler, father, Percival Butler]
  • A. Percy Metcalfe
    Percy Metcalfe was a British sculptor and designer best known for his coinage, medals, and stylized animal motifs used across the British Commonwealth in the early 20th century.
  • B. Geoffrey Butler
    Geoffrey Butler is the sardonic, impeccably proper English butler who serves and often wryly comments on the Banks family’s antics in the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
  • C. Percival P. Baxter
    Percival P. Baxter was a former governor of Maine and conservationist best known for his pivotal role in preserving wilderness areas, including the land that became Baxter State Park.
  • D. Edward Milford
    Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
  • E. Henry Scudder
    Henry Scudder was a 17th-century English clergyman and devotional writer known for his influential Puritan work "The Christian's Daily Walk."
  • 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: Percival Butler
Triple: [William O. Butler, father, Percival Butler]
Generated description
Percival Butler was a member of the prominent Butler family of Kentucky, known primarily as the son of U.S. Congressman and Mexican–American War general William O. Butler.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Percival Butler
Target entity description: Percival Butler was a member of the prominent Butler family of Kentucky, known primarily as the son of U.S. Congressman and Mexican–American War general William O. Butler.
  • A. Percy Metcalfe
    Percy Metcalfe was a British sculptor and designer best known for his coinage, medals, and stylized animal motifs used across the British Commonwealth in the early 20th century.
  • B. Geoffrey Butler
    Geoffrey Butler is the sardonic, impeccably proper English butler who serves and often wryly comments on the Banks family’s antics in the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
  • C. Percival P. Baxter
    Percival P. Baxter was a former governor of Maine and conservationist best known for his pivotal role in preserving wilderness areas, including the land that became Baxter State Park.
  • D. Edward Milford
    Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
  • E. Henry Scudder
    Henry Scudder was a 17th-century English clergyman and devotional writer known for his influential Puritan work "The Christian's Daily Walk."
  • 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_69d806a872d08190a329806f8ff30df4 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98180b6ac8190ae5a1f7c1480bd54 completed April 10, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbac754aec8190a5b975c9965eef61 completed May 6, 2026, 9:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fbb16aa3dc819096407243383d7578 completed May 6, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fbb1ebe7048190b62c56b43002f94c completed May 6, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:06 p.m.