Triple

T9129816
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Custis family E219054 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object John Custis II
John Custis II was a prominent 17th-century Virginia planter and political figure who helped establish the Custis family’s wealth and influence in colonial America.
E779383 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: John Custis II | Statement: [Custis family, hasNotableMember, John Custis II]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Custis II
Context triple: [Custis family, hasNotableMember, John Custis II]
  • A. John Wayles
    John Wayles was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and slave trader best known as the father of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson and the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson.
  • B. Robert Carter III
    Robert Carter III was an 18th-century Virginia planter and politician best known for orchestrating one of the largest private emancipations of enslaved people in early American history.
  • C. Thomas Jefferson Randolph
    Thomas Jefferson Randolph was a 19th-century American planter, politician, and the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, known for editing and publishing his grandfather’s papers.
  • D. Henry Lee I
    Henry Lee I was a colonial Virginia planter and politician who founded the prominent Lee family line that would become influential in early American history.
  • E. George Champlin Mason
    George Champlin Mason was a 19th-century American architect and author known for his influential work in Newport, Rhode Island’s architectural and historical heritage.
  • 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: John Custis II
Triple: [Custis family, hasNotableMember, John Custis II]
Generated description
John Custis II was a prominent 17th-century Virginia planter and political figure who helped establish the Custis family’s wealth and influence in colonial America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Custis II
Target entity description: John Custis II was a prominent 17th-century Virginia planter and political figure who helped establish the Custis family’s wealth and influence in colonial America.
  • A. John Wayles
    John Wayles was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and slave trader best known as the father of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson and the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson.
  • B. Robert Carter III
    Robert Carter III was an 18th-century Virginia planter and politician best known for orchestrating one of the largest private emancipations of enslaved people in early American history.
  • C. Thomas Jefferson Randolph
    Thomas Jefferson Randolph was a 19th-century American planter, politician, and the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, known for editing and publishing his grandfather’s papers.
  • D. Henry Lee I
    Henry Lee I was a colonial Virginia planter and politician who founded the prominent Lee family line that would become influential in early American history.
  • E. George Champlin Mason
    George Champlin Mason was a 19th-century American architect and author known for his influential work in Newport, Rhode Island’s architectural and historical heritage.
  • 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_69ca83debfc0819095800583e97ab10f completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca8cdafb48190be5e62b15779d771 completed April 1, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d030a934988190976aa359f9f902c3 completed April 3, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d032a7d9808190a4b3be86e49afb22 completed April 3, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0337057048190af062152688599a1 completed April 3, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:18 p.m.