Triple

T23150060
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Mercer Langston E578297 entity
Predicate hasRelative P367 FINISHED
Object Gideon S. Langston
Gideon S. Langston was a 19th-century African American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Langston family that included abolitionist and politician John Mercer Langston.
 E1573592 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: Gideon S. Langston | Statement: [John Mercer Langston, hasRelative, Gideon S. Langston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gideon S. Langston
Context triple: [John Mercer Langston, hasRelative, Gideon S. Langston]
  • A. Henry A. Wise
    Henry A. Wise was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and U.S. congressman, known for his influential role in antebellum Southern politics.
  • B. William C. Rives
    William C. Rives was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and lawyer from Virginia who served in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and as U.S. Minister to France.
  • C. William L. Cabell
    William L. Cabell was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a prominent political figure and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
  • D. Charles P. Cabell
    Charles P. Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
  • E. William H. Cabell
    William H. Cabell was an American politician who served as Governor of Virginia in the early 19th 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: Gideon S. Langston
Triple: [John Mercer Langston, hasRelative, Gideon S. Langston]
Generated description
Gideon S. Langston was a 19th-century African American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Langston family that included abolitionist and politician John Mercer Langston.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gideon S. Langston
Target entity description: Gideon S. Langston was a 19th-century African American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Langston family that included abolitionist and politician John Mercer Langston.
  • A. Henry A. Wise
    Henry A. Wise was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and U.S. congressman, known for his influential role in antebellum Southern politics.
  • B. William C. Rives
    William C. Rives was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and lawyer from Virginia who served in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and as U.S. Minister to France.
  • C. William L. Cabell
    William L. Cabell was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a prominent political figure and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
  • D. Charles P. Cabell
    Charles P. Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
  • E. William H. Cabell
    William H. Cabell was an American politician who served as Governor of Virginia in the early 19th 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_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.