Triple

T18683486
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS Princeton gun explosion of 1844 E456793 entity
Predicate killed P4646 FINISHED
Object Thomas Walker Gilmer
Thomas Walker Gilmer was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and was previously Governor of Virginia.
E1337425 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: Thomas Walker Gilmer | Statement: [USS Princeton gun explosion of 1844, killed, Thomas Walker Gilmer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Walker Gilmer
Context triple: [USS Princeton gun explosion of 1844, killed, Thomas Walker Gilmer]
  • A. George Rockingham Gilmer
    George Rockingham Gilmer was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and played a significant role in the state's early development and policies toward Native American lands.
  • B. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • C. George Izard
    George Izard was an American military officer and politician who served as a general in the War of 1812 and later as the territorial governor of Arkansas.
  • D. Almon C. Bacone
    Almon C. Bacone was an American educator and Baptist missionary best known for establishing an institution that evolved into Bacone College, historically focused on serving Native American students.
  • E. George L. Tucker
    George L. Tucker was an American figure of sufficient local or historical prominence to be recognized as a notable burial at Los Angeles’s Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.
  • 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: Thomas Walker Gilmer
Triple: [USS Princeton gun explosion of 1844, killed, Thomas Walker Gilmer]
Generated description
Thomas Walker Gilmer was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and was previously Governor of Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Walker Gilmer
Target entity description: Thomas Walker Gilmer was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and was previously Governor of Virginia.
  • A. George Rockingham Gilmer
    George Rockingham Gilmer was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and played a significant role in the state's early development and policies toward Native American lands.
  • B. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • C. George Izard
    George Izard was an American military officer and politician who served as a general in the War of 1812 and later as the territorial governor of Arkansas.
  • D. Almon C. Bacone
    Almon C. Bacone was an American educator and Baptist missionary best known for establishing an institution that evolved into Bacone College, historically focused on serving Native American students.
  • E. George L. Tucker
    George L. Tucker was an American figure of sufficient local or historical prominence to be recognized as a notable burial at Los Angeles’s Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.
  • 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_69d8d391eb488190ac2e9abf5bf255e4 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e55b2abf3c8190958c03066b5814af completed April 19, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a052358206c81908fd07af6b2911400 completed May 14, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05246d04408190995d7e34f6662011 completed May 14, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0524eced608190a1b3468f6d0189c2 completed May 14, 2026, 1:27 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:49 a.m.