Triple

T20291831
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Willie Handcart Company E510046 entity
Predicate leader P981 FINISHED
Object James G. Willie
James G. Willie was a Latter-day Saint pioneer best known for leading one of the ill-fated Mormon handcart companies that faced severe hardship during their westward trek to Utah in 1856.
E1439659 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: James G. Willie | Statement: [Willie Handcart Company, leader, James G. Willie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James G. Willie
Context triple: [Willie Handcart Company, leader, James G. Willie]
  • A. Alpheus S. Williams
    Alpheus S. Williams was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in multiple major campaigns and battles.
  • B. William H. Gill
    William H. Gill was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 32nd Infantry Division during World War II, leading it in significant Pacific Theater operations.
  • C. Johnson T. Crawford
    Johnson T. Crawford was an American judge who served on the U.S. military tribunal in the post–World War II Doctors' Trial of Nazi physicians for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  • D. Ephraim Logan
    Ephraim Logan was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Logan, Utah, was named.
  • E. Samuel B. Maxey
    Samuel B. Maxey was a 19th-century American lawyer, Confederate general, and U.S. Senator from Texas.
  • 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: James G. Willie
Triple: [Willie Handcart Company, leader, James G. Willie]
Generated description
James G. Willie was a Latter-day Saint pioneer best known for leading one of the ill-fated Mormon handcart companies that faced severe hardship during their westward trek to Utah in 1856.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James G. Willie
Target entity description: James G. Willie was a Latter-day Saint pioneer best known for leading one of the ill-fated Mormon handcart companies that faced severe hardship during their westward trek to Utah in 1856.
  • A. Alpheus S. Williams
    Alpheus S. Williams was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in multiple major campaigns and battles.
  • B. William H. Gill
    William H. Gill was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 32nd Infantry Division during World War II, leading it in significant Pacific Theater operations.
  • C. Johnson T. Crawford
    Johnson T. Crawford was an American judge who served on the U.S. military tribunal in the post–World War II Doctors' Trial of Nazi physicians for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  • D. Ephraim Logan
    Ephraim Logan was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Logan, Utah, was named.
  • E. Samuel B. Maxey
    Samuel B. Maxey was a 19th-century American lawyer, Confederate general, and U.S. Senator from Texas.
  • 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_69e0b4c652388190b782cad965e5a098 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e67700c024819091205f5b0a8648e3 completed April 20, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08b3d4195c81909b9b8a50fd7b1f96 completed May 16, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08b53ebca0819088942a26bff8344a completed May 16, 2026, 6:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08b5a612808190826bca635eb94f56 completed May 16, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:12 a.m.