Triple

T23150063
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Mercer Langston E578297 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol (autobiography)
From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol is the autobiography of African American lawyer, educator, and politician John Mercer Langston, tracing his journey from enslavement in Virginia to becoming a prominent national leader.
E1573595 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: From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol (autobiography) | Statement: [John Mercer Langston, notableWork, From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol (autobiography)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol (autobiography)
Context triple: [John Mercer Langston, notableWork, From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol (autobiography)]
  • A. The Boyhood of Washington
    The Boyhood of Washington is a 19th-century historical painting by American artist Henry Inman depicting an idealized scene from George Washington’s youth.
  • B. Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington
    Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington is a 19th-century biographical work offering personal anecdotes and insights into George Washington’s life and character, written by his step-grandson George Washington Parke Custis.
  • C. Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson
    "Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson" is a biographical work by Thomas E. Watson that chronicles the life, political career, and legacy of the third president of the United States.
  • D. City of Presidents
    City of Presidents is the nickname of Quincy, Massachusetts, a historic New England city best known as the birthplace of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
  • E. The Man Who Built Washington
    The Man Who Built Washington is the nickname of American building contractor John McShain, renowned for constructing and renovating many of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic federal buildings and monuments.
  • 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: From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol (autobiography)
Triple: [John Mercer Langston, notableWork, From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol (autobiography)]
Generated description
From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol is the autobiography of African American lawyer, educator, and politician John Mercer Langston, tracing his journey from enslavement in Virginia to becoming a prominent national leader.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol (autobiography)
Target entity description: From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol is the autobiography of African American lawyer, educator, and politician John Mercer Langston, tracing his journey from enslavement in Virginia to becoming a prominent national leader.
  • A. The Boyhood of Washington
    The Boyhood of Washington is a 19th-century historical painting by American artist Henry Inman depicting an idealized scene from George Washington’s youth.
  • B. Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington
    Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington is a 19th-century biographical work offering personal anecdotes and insights into George Washington’s life and character, written by his step-grandson George Washington Parke Custis.
  • C. Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson
    "Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson" is a biographical work by Thomas E. Watson that chronicles the life, political career, and legacy of the third president of the United States.
  • D. City of Presidents
    City of Presidents is the nickname of Quincy, Massachusetts, a historic New England city best known as the birthplace of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
  • E. The Man Who Built Washington
    The Man Who Built Washington is the nickname of American building contractor John McShain, renowned for constructing and renovating many of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic federal buildings and monuments.
  • 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.