Triple

T19884720
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Reedville, Virginia E477866 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Captain Elijah W. Reed
Captain Elijah W. Reed was a 19th-century sea captain and entrepreneur credited with developing the menhaden fishing and processing industry that transformed the economy of Virginia’s Northern Neck.
 E1399499 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: Captain Elijah W. Reed | Statement: [Reedville, Virginia, namedAfter, Captain Elijah W. Reed]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain Elijah W. Reed
Context triple: [Reedville, Virginia, namedAfter, Captain Elijah W. Reed]
  • A. Captain John C. Leach
    Captain John C. Leach was a Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the battleship HMS Prince of Wales during World War II, including its engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and its final action leading to the ship’s sinking in 1941.
  • B. Captain Edwin B. Guthrie
    Captain Edwin B. Guthrie was a military officer after whom Guthrie County in Iowa was named, honoring his service and legacy.
  • C. Captain W. E. Kingman
    Captain W. E. Kingman was a 19th-century sea captain and explorer after whom the remote Pacific atoll Kingman Reef was named.
  • D. Captain Edmund C. Hentig
    Captain Edmund C. Hentig was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership of troops during the late 19th-century Indian Wars in the American Southwest.
  • E. Commodore Robert F. Stockton
    Commodore Robert F. Stockton was a 19th-century U.S. naval officer and political figure best known for his leadership in the conquest of California during the Mexican–American War.
  • 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: Captain Elijah W. Reed
Triple: [Reedville, Virginia, namedAfter, Captain Elijah W. Reed]
Generated description
Captain Elijah W. Reed was a 19th-century sea captain and entrepreneur credited with developing the menhaden fishing and processing industry that transformed the economy of Virginia’s Northern Neck.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain Elijah W. Reed
Target entity description: Captain Elijah W. Reed was a 19th-century sea captain and entrepreneur credited with developing the menhaden fishing and processing industry that transformed the economy of Virginia’s Northern Neck.
  • A. Captain John C. Leach
    Captain John C. Leach was a Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the battleship HMS Prince of Wales during World War II, including its engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and its final action leading to the ship’s sinking in 1941.
  • B. Captain Edwin B. Guthrie
    Captain Edwin B. Guthrie was a military officer after whom Guthrie County in Iowa was named, honoring his service and legacy.
  • C. Captain W. E. Kingman
    Captain W. E. Kingman was a 19th-century sea captain and explorer after whom the remote Pacific atoll Kingman Reef was named.
  • D. Captain Edmund C. Hentig
    Captain Edmund C. Hentig was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership of troops during the late 19th-century Indian Wars in the American Southwest.
  • E. Commodore Robert F. Stockton
    Commodore Robert F. Stockton was a 19th-century U.S. naval officer and political figure best known for his leadership in the conquest of California during the Mexican–American War.
  • 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_69d8e51f32b08190b3687f4f60353250 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e659093df081909d3be9c3caeb79ba completed April 20, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07dbcf6f7c8190901a78dfd4cf6b4d completed May 16, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07dce009a48190ad0a2bb48e49002a completed May 16, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07dd57f9548190b6b7e909eccbbfa9 completed May 16, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:52 p.m.