Triple

T1068647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Howland E23272 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Isaac Howland
Isaac Howland was a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to an early New England colonial family.
 E129454 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: Isaac Howland | Statement: [John Howland, child, Isaac Howland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Isaac Howland
Context triple: [John Howland, child, Isaac Howland]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Elias Loomis
    Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
  • C. James Warren Sever
    James Warren Sever was a Harvard University alumnus and benefactor after whom the historic Sever Hall in Harvard Yard is named.
  • D. FitzWilliam Sargent
    FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
  • E. Samuel Osgood
    Samuel Osgood was an American merchant, Revolutionary War officer, and statesman who became the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
  • 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: Isaac Howland
Triple: [John Howland, child, Isaac Howland]
Generated description
Isaac Howland was a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to an early New England colonial family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Isaac Howland
Target entity description: Isaac Howland was a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to an early New England colonial family.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Elias Loomis
    Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
  • C. James Warren Sever
    James Warren Sever was a Harvard University alumnus and benefactor after whom the historic Sever Hall in Harvard Yard is named.
  • D. FitzWilliam Sargent
    FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
  • E. Samuel Osgood
    Samuel Osgood was an American merchant, Revolutionary War officer, and statesman who became the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
  • 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_69ac599c08f481908b720e2cc7c4a5ef completed March 7, 2026, 5 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5a6b43cc81908086f4c4e2bb34c8 completed March 7, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5add366c819086a01654c6cdcf38 completed March 7, 2026, 5:05 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.