Triple

T1189313
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Purchas, His Pilgrimage E25320 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Samuel Purchas
Samuel Purchas was an early 17th-century English cleric and compiler best known for his extensive collections of travel narratives and geographical writings that documented global exploration.
E136175 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: Samuel Purchas | Statement: [Purchas, His Pilgrimage, author, Samuel Purchas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Purchas
Context triple: [Purchas, His Pilgrimage, author, Samuel Purchas]
  • A. William Strachey
    William Strachey was an English writer and early colonist in Virginia best known for his detailed account of the Sea Venture shipwreck, which is thought to have influenced Shakespeare’s "The Tempest."
  • B. Paul Dudley
    Paul Dudley was a prominent early 18th-century Massachusetts jurist and attorney general known for his influential role in the legal and political life of colonial New England.
  • C. Martin Frobisher
    Martin Frobisher was a 16th-century English seafarer and privateer best known for his early Arctic voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia.
  • D. William Baffin
    William Baffin was a 17th-century English navigator and explorer renowned for his Arctic voyages and detailed mapping of the Canadian Arctic, including the bay that now bears his name.
  • E. Antonio Pigafetta
    Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian scholar and explorer best known for chronicling Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe, providing one of the most detailed primary accounts of the voyage.
  • 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: Samuel Purchas
Triple: [Purchas, His Pilgrimage, author, Samuel Purchas]
Generated description
Samuel Purchas was an early 17th-century English cleric and compiler best known for his extensive collections of travel narratives and geographical writings that documented global exploration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Purchas
Target entity description: Samuel Purchas was an early 17th-century English cleric and compiler best known for his extensive collections of travel narratives and geographical writings that documented global exploration.
  • A. William Strachey
    William Strachey was an English writer and early colonist in Virginia best known for his detailed account of the Sea Venture shipwreck, which is thought to have influenced Shakespeare’s "The Tempest."
  • B. Paul Dudley
    Paul Dudley was a prominent early 18th-century Massachusetts jurist and attorney general known for his influential role in the legal and political life of colonial New England.
  • C. Martin Frobisher
    Martin Frobisher was a 16th-century English seafarer and privateer best known for his early Arctic voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia.
  • D. William Baffin
    William Baffin was a 17th-century English navigator and explorer renowned for his Arctic voyages and detailed mapping of the Canadian Arctic, including the bay that now bears his name.
  • E. Antonio Pigafetta
    Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian scholar and explorer best known for chronicling Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe, providing one of the most detailed primary accounts of the voyage.
  • 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_69a49427d98881908646d6c63b8cea1e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd57c3c481908bdca483fcaa3297 completed March 1, 2026, 10:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac764ccb1c8190a302137a0e67cb88 completed March 7, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac76e1b430819092669c6e83d7a62c completed March 7, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac77670fa08190827ef34ba9d52a70 completed March 7, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.