Triple

T22212551
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blackie Towery E548989 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William C. Towery
William C. "Blackie" Towery was an American professional basketball player known for his career in the National Basketball League during the 1940s.
 E1544145 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: William C. Towery | Statement: [Blackie Towery, fullName, William C. Towery]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William C. Towery
Context triple: [Blackie Towery, fullName, William C. Towery]
  • A. Charles B. Gatewood
    Charles B. Gatewood was a U.S. Army officer best known for his pivotal role in persuading the Apache leader Geronimo to surrender in 1886, effectively ending the Apache Wars.
  • B. William R. Poage
    William R. Poage was a long-serving Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas known for his influential role in agricultural policy and leadership on the House Agriculture Committee.
  • C. William E. Hunt
    William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
  • D. William H. Hunt
    William H. Hunt was a 19th-century American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and played a key role in modernizing the Navy’s institutions and intelligence capabilities.
  • E. William H. Foulkrod
    William H. Foulkrod was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania in the early 20th century.
  • 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: William C. Towery
Triple: [Blackie Towery, fullName, William C. Towery]
Generated description
William C. "Blackie" Towery was an American professional basketball player known for his career in the National Basketball League during the 1940s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William C. Towery
Target entity description: William C. "Blackie" Towery was an American professional basketball player known for his career in the National Basketball League during the 1940s.
  • A. Charles B. Gatewood
    Charles B. Gatewood was a U.S. Army officer best known for his pivotal role in persuading the Apache leader Geronimo to surrender in 1886, effectively ending the Apache Wars.
  • B. William R. Poage
    William R. Poage was a long-serving Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas known for his influential role in agricultural policy and leadership on the House Agriculture Committee.
  • C. William E. Hunt
    William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
  • D. William H. Hunt
    William H. Hunt was a 19th-century American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and played a key role in modernizing the Navy’s institutions and intelligence capabilities.
  • E. William H. Foulkrod
    William H. Foulkrod was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69e11e3f7e04819089806d81d5ac431e completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12b2c8b608190b0047af4ac91b023 completed April 28, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b3d402d408190979a1c51af2fa275 completed May 18, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b3e659bbc81908ebe404365577ddf completed May 18, 2026, 4:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b3f401fb08190b59206d6e5edbaf7 completed May 18, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:36 p.m.