Triple

T1068644
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Howland E23272 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Joseph Howland
Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
E210809 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: Joseph Howland | Statement: [John Howland, child, Joseph Howland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Howland
Context triple: [John Howland, child, Joseph Howland]
  • A. James R. Osgood
    James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
  • B. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • C. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • D. Jabez Howland
    Jabez Howland was a colonial New England settler and son of Mayflower passenger John Howland, known for owning one of the oldest surviving houses in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • E. Charles Emerson
    Charles Emerson was a 19th-century American lawyer and lecturer, best known as the intellectually gifted but short-lived younger brother of transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  • 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: Joseph Howland
Triple: [John Howland, child, Joseph Howland]
Generated description
Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Howland
Target entity description: Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
  • A. James R. Osgood
    James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
  • B. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • C. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • D. Jabez Howland
    Jabez Howland was a colonial New England settler and son of Mayflower passenger John Howland, known for owning one of the oldest surviving houses in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • E. Charles Emerson
    Charles Emerson was a 19th-century American lawyer and lecturer, best known as the intellectually gifted but short-lived younger brother of transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  • 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_69a493ee1f908190992b5f0d1b04459b completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b91389888190b4b96d7ee4dda206 completed March 1, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69addf1667908190bdcb6d200577418d completed March 8, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ade0336d7881908f56b8dcb3577ef2 completed March 8, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ade09cc6d08190b424022c877d42c1 completed March 8, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.