Triple
T17902990
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bill Compton |
E447629
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entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
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FINISHED |
| Object |
William Thomas Compton
William Thomas Compton is the full birth name of Bill Compton, a fictional Civil War–era vampire and central character in Charlaine Harris's "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" novels and the TV series "True Blood."
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E1295414
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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: William Thomas Compton | Statement: [Bill Compton, birthName, William Thomas Compton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas Compton Context triple: [Bill Compton, birthName, William Thomas Compton]
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A.
Griffith Dickenson Compton
Griffith Dickenson Compton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister and pioneer whose land holdings and influence in the area led to the California city of Compton being named in his honor.
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B.
Wilson Martindale Compton
Wilson Martindale Compton was an American economist and academic administrator who served as president of Washington State College in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Arthur Bell Nicholls
Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
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D.
Edward Whitchurch
Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
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E.
Edmund Howard
Edmund Howard was an English nobleman of the prominent Howard family, best known as the father of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII.
- 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: William Thomas Compton Triple: [Bill Compton, birthName, William Thomas Compton]
Generated description
William Thomas Compton is the full birth name of Bill Compton, a fictional Civil War–era vampire and central character in Charlaine Harris's "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" novels and the TV series "True Blood."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas Compton Target entity description: William Thomas Compton is the full birth name of Bill Compton, a fictional Civil War–era vampire and central character in Charlaine Harris's "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" novels and the TV series "True Blood."
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A.
Griffith Dickenson Compton
Griffith Dickenson Compton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister and pioneer whose land holdings and influence in the area led to the California city of Compton being named in his honor.
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B.
Wilson Martindale Compton
Wilson Martindale Compton was an American economist and academic administrator who served as president of Washington State College in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Arthur Bell Nicholls
Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
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D.
Edward Whitchurch
Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
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E.
Edmund Howard
Edmund Howard was an English nobleman of the prominent Howard family, best known as the father of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII.
- 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_69d8b9f59bd48190a6fc925a855b8bac |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e49e99c3188190aead24cd3d48c7a7 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 9:21 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a031b2a27748190b620da54b4222a37 |
completed | May 12, 2026, 12:20 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a031c78ca108190ae678979ed85ba55 |
completed | May 12, 2026, 12:26 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a031db7eed88190bc3d4e157be7b5fc |
completed | May 12, 2026, 12:31 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:19 a.m.