Triple

T21905023
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Washington Star E540912 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Alexander Robey Shepherd
Alexander Robey Shepherd was a powerful 19th-century American politician and businessman best known for serving as the territorial governor of the District of Columbia and spearheading major modernization of Washington, D.C.'s infrastructure.
E1507530 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: Alexander Robey Shepherd | Statement: [Washington Star, foundedBy, Alexander Robey Shepherd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Robey Shepherd
Context triple: [Washington Star, foundedBy, Alexander Robey Shepherd]
  • A. Hunter Benedict Shepherd
    Hunter Benedict Shepherd, better known as Ben Shepherd, is an American musician and songwriter best known as the longtime bassist for the rock band Soundgarden.
  • B. Christopher Shea
    Christopher Shea was an American child actor best known for voicing Linus van Pelt in several classic Peanuts animated television specials.
  • C. Timothy Ivory Carpenter
    Timothy Ivory Carpenter is the defendant whose challenge to the warrantless collection of his cell phone location data led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Carpenter v. United States, which expanded Fourth Amendment privacy protections.
  • D. Jonathan Sheffer
    Jonathan Sheffer is an American composer and conductor known for his work on film scores, concert music, and as the founder of the Eos Orchestra.
  • E. Alexander Rea
    Alexander Rea was the individual after whom the Town of Alexander in New York was named, likely an early settler or prominent local figure in the area’s founding.
  • 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: Alexander Robey Shepherd
Triple: [Washington Star, foundedBy, Alexander Robey Shepherd]
Generated description
Alexander Robey Shepherd was a powerful 19th-century American politician and businessman best known for serving as the territorial governor of the District of Columbia and spearheading major modernization of Washington, D.C.'s infrastructure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Robey Shepherd
Target entity description: Alexander Robey Shepherd was a powerful 19th-century American politician and businessman best known for serving as the territorial governor of the District of Columbia and spearheading major modernization of Washington, D.C.'s infrastructure.
  • A. Hunter Benedict Shepherd
    Hunter Benedict Shepherd, better known as Ben Shepherd, is an American musician and songwriter best known as the longtime bassist for the rock band Soundgarden.
  • B. Christopher Shea
    Christopher Shea was an American child actor best known for voicing Linus van Pelt in several classic Peanuts animated television specials.
  • C. Timothy Ivory Carpenter
    Timothy Ivory Carpenter is the defendant whose challenge to the warrantless collection of his cell phone location data led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Carpenter v. United States, which expanded Fourth Amendment privacy protections.
  • D. Jonathan Sheffer
    Jonathan Sheffer is an American composer and conductor known for his work on film scores, concert music, and as the founder of the Eos Orchestra.
  • E. Alexander Rea
    Alexander Rea was the individual after whom the Town of Alexander in New York was named, likely an early settler or prominent local figure in the area’s founding.
  • 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_69e0c47b4e8c81908c8076eaa4c8e4f2 completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f121d4c0248190909172decd7cbc64 completed April 28, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a5a08c4dc81908b7d90278ea4bc8c completed May 18, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a5ac52b588190b685aacc06cac3d0 completed May 18, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a5b7724188190bcdf44436cd8da26 completed May 18, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:32 p.m.