Triple

T21358957
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McDowell County, North Carolina E526715 entity
Predicate namedFor P63 FINISHED
Object Joseph McDowell
Joseph McDowell was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina political leader after whom McDowell County, North Carolina, is named.
E1480080 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: Joseph McDowell | Statement: [McDowell County, North Carolina, namedFor, Joseph McDowell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph McDowell
Context triple: [McDowell County, North Carolina, namedFor, Joseph McDowell]
  • A. George Reynolds
    George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
  • B. Charles C. Smith
    Charles C. Smith was an architect and engineer best known for designing the historic Stone Arch Bridge.
  • C. John Barker Church
    John Barker Church was an 18th-century British-born American merchant, speculator, and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman from New York and was connected to prominent Revolutionary-era families.
  • D. John A. Broadus
    John A. Broadus was a prominent 19th-century American Baptist pastor, theologian, and educator known especially for his influential work in preaching and New Testament studies.
  • E. Charles G. Smith
    Charles G. Smith was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder of the defense and aerospace company Raytheon.
  • 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: Joseph McDowell
Triple: [McDowell County, North Carolina, namedFor, Joseph McDowell]
Generated description
Joseph McDowell was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina political leader after whom McDowell County, North Carolina, is named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph McDowell
Target entity description: Joseph McDowell was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina political leader after whom McDowell County, North Carolina, is named.
  • A. George Reynolds
    George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
  • B. Charles C. Smith
    Charles C. Smith was an architect and engineer best known for designing the historic Stone Arch Bridge.
  • C. John Barker Church
    John Barker Church was an 18th-century British-born American merchant, speculator, and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman from New York and was connected to prominent Revolutionary-era families.
  • D. John A. Broadus
    John A. Broadus was a prominent 19th-century American Baptist pastor, theologian, and educator known especially for his influential work in preaching and New Testament studies.
  • E. Charles G. Smith
    Charles G. Smith was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder of the defense and aerospace company Raytheon.
  • 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_69e0b51d8a308190b09113b3b3f9bc15 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ee5bac9e1481909121e89f046c77f6 completed April 26, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09ad67854c819084d4a1b20e4489ff completed May 17, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09ae45e9f88190bc623f71fe3a29a4 completed May 17, 2026, 12:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09af2184808190b42b5073e90bd83d completed May 17, 2026, 12:05 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 5:07 p.m.