Triple

T20619370
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elmer E. Ellsworth E506657 entity
Predicate killedBy P4646 FINISHED
Object James W. Jackson
James W. Jackson was a Confederate sympathizer and Virginia innkeeper known for killing Union officer Elmer E. Ellsworth during the American Civil War.
 E1440830 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 W. Jackson | Statement: [Elmer E. Ellsworth, killedBy, James W. Jackson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James W. Jackson
Context triple: [Elmer E. Ellsworth, killedBy, James W. Jackson]
  • A. George Lewis Ruffin
    George Lewis Ruffin was a pioneering African American lawyer, judge, and politician in Boston, recognized as one of the first Black graduates of Harvard Law School and a prominent civil rights advocate in the 19th century.
  • B. James Price Johnson
    James Price Johnson was an influential American pianist and composer, widely regarded as a pioneer of the stride piano style in early jazz.
  • C. Marcellus E. Foster
    Marcellus E. Foster was an American journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founder of the Houston Chronicle.
  • D. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • E. Charles Remond Douglass
    Charles Remond Douglass was an African American civil rights activist, soldier, and government clerk, and the youngest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
  • 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 W. Jackson
Triple: [Elmer E. Ellsworth, killedBy, James W. Jackson]
Generated description
James W. Jackson was a Confederate sympathizer and Virginia innkeeper known for killing Union officer Elmer E. Ellsworth during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James W. Jackson
Target entity description: James W. Jackson was a Confederate sympathizer and Virginia innkeeper known for killing Union officer Elmer E. Ellsworth during the American Civil War.
  • A. George Lewis Ruffin
    George Lewis Ruffin was a pioneering African American lawyer, judge, and politician in Boston, recognized as one of the first Black graduates of Harvard Law School and a prominent civil rights advocate in the 19th century.
  • B. James Price Johnson
    James Price Johnson was an influential American pianist and composer, widely regarded as a pioneer of the stride piano style in early jazz.
  • C. Marcellus E. Foster
    Marcellus E. Foster was an American journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founder of the Houston Chronicle.
  • D. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • E. Charles Remond Douglass
    Charles Remond Douglass was an African American civil rights activist, soldier, and government clerk, and the youngest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
  • 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_69e0b4bc90988190ac360aaf645efc1d completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6abe0e22c81909f6efe21518e33f0 completed April 20, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08bb1588a881909f7197bfc38d9e21 completed May 16, 2026, 6:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08bba2e85881909ae887fc5bc3121f completed May 16, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08bc410f008190b00bf4956d591176 completed May 16, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:41 a.m.