Triple

T23150059
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Mercer Langston E578297 entity
Predicate hasRelative P367 FINISHED
Object Charles Henry Langston
Charles Henry Langston was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, educator, and political activist known for his leadership in the antislavery movement and civil rights advocacy.
E578297 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: Charles Henry Langston | Statement: [John Mercer Langston, hasRelative, Charles Henry Langston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Henry Langston
Context triple: [John Mercer Langston, hasRelative, Charles Henry Langston]
  • A. Martin Delany
    Martin Delany was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, writer, physician, and early Black nationalist leader who co-founded the antislavery newspaper The North Star with Frederick Douglass.
  • B. Henry Beard Delany
    Henry Beard Delany was an influential African-American Episcopal bishop and educator who became one of the first Black bishops in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
  • C. John Mercer Langston
    John Mercer Langston was a pioneering African American abolitionist, lawyer, educator, and politician who became one of the first Black men elected to public office in the United States and served as a U.S. congressman from Virginia.
  • D. Lewis Henry Douglass
    Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
  • 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: Charles Henry Langston
Triple: [John Mercer Langston, hasRelative, Charles Henry Langston]
Generated description
Charles Henry Langston was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, educator, and political activist known for his leadership in the antislavery movement and civil rights advocacy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Henry Langston
Target entity description: Charles Henry Langston was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, educator, and political activist known for his leadership in the antislavery movement and civil rights advocacy.
  • A. Martin Delany
    Martin Delany was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, writer, physician, and early Black nationalist leader who co-founded the antislavery newspaper The North Star with Frederick Douglass.
  • B. Henry Beard Delany
    Henry Beard Delany was an influential African-American Episcopal bishop and educator who became one of the first Black bishops in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
  • C. John Mercer Langston chosen
    John Mercer Langston was a pioneering African American abolitionist, lawyer, educator, and politician who became one of the first Black men elected to public office in the United States and served as a U.S. congressman from Virginia.
  • D. Lewis Henry Douglass
    Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
  • 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.

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_69e245fb8de081908f0eba7b5fd75bc4 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18ed0b76c8190ac61b949d88e9970 completed April 29, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c3098168481908aa4e4a985314db1 completed May 19, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c3442ccb08190aaea6fe426a3dd10 completed May 19, 2026, 9:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c34a421308190bbaf614cdfa5e146 completed May 19, 2026, 10 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:01 p.m.