Triple

T23488031
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams E570592 entity
Predicate historicalBasis P1409 FINISHED
Object American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams
American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams was a pioneering African American soldier, minister, politician, and historian best known for his early and influential writings on Black history and his outspoken criticism of colonial abuses in the Congo.
E1587620 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: American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams | Statement: [Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams, historicalBasis, American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams
Context triple: [Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams, historicalBasis, American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams]
  • A. Henry Gray Turner
    Henry Gray Turner was a 19th-century American lawyer, Confederate veteran, and Democratic politician who served multiple terms as a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
  • B. William Walton Sharman
    William Walton Sharman was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, best known for his sharpshooting with the Boston Celtics and later coaching the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship.
  • C. Hinton Battle
    Hinton Battle is an American actor, singer, and three-time Tony Award–winning Broadway dancer known for his dynamic performances in musical theatre.
  • D. William T. Williams
    William T. Williams is an American abstract painter and influential figure in Black contemporary art who helped establish the Studio Museum in Harlem as a major institution for artists of African descent.
  • E. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • 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: American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams
Triple: [Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams, historicalBasis, American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams]
Generated description
American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams was a pioneering African American soldier, minister, politician, and historian best known for his early and influential writings on Black history and his outspoken criticism of colonial abuses in the Congo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams
Target entity description: American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams was a pioneering African American soldier, minister, politician, and historian best known for his early and influential writings on Black history and his outspoken criticism of colonial abuses in the Congo.
  • A. Henry Gray Turner
    Henry Gray Turner was a 19th-century American lawyer, Confederate veteran, and Democratic politician who served multiple terms as a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
  • B. William Walton Sharman
    William Walton Sharman was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, best known for his sharpshooting with the Boston Celtics and later coaching the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship.
  • C. Hinton Battle
    Hinton Battle is an American actor, singer, and three-time Tony Award–winning Broadway dancer known for his dynamic performances in musical theatre.
  • D. William T. Williams
    William T. Williams is an American abstract painter and influential figure in Black contemporary art who helped establish the Studio Museum in Harlem as a major institution for artists of African descent.
  • E. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • 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_69e245b0b01481908f636939bedd804c completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1a7d9cc08819084c532b069f867ee completed April 29, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c826c2cb88190962f0c032cf4d2ec completed May 19, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ca6f159488190bcde44676ddce593 completed May 19, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ca754878c8190a918fa3b349fd970 completed May 19, 2026, 6:09 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:04 p.m.