Triple

T119894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave E2421 entity
Predicate hasPrefaceBy P7669 FINISHED
Object William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known for founding and editing the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator and advocating immediate emancipation.
E16741 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: William Lloyd Garrison | Statement: [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, hasPrefaceBy, William Lloyd Garrison]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lloyd Garrison
Context triple: [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, hasPrefaceBy, William Lloyd Garrison]
  • A. Henry Ward Beecher
    Henry Ward Beecher was a prominent 19th-century American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and abolitionist known for his powerful preaching against slavery.
  • B. Calvin Ellis Stowe
    Calvin Ellis Stowe was an American biblical scholar and professor best known for his influential work in religious education and as the husband of author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • D. Lyman Beecher
    Lyman Beecher was a prominent 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and revivalist leader known for his influential role in the Second Great Awakening and his strong advocacy of temperance and social reform.
  • E. Julia Ward Howe
    Julia Ward Howe was an American poet, author, and social reformer best known for writing the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and for her leadership in the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements.
  • 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: William Lloyd Garrison
Triple: [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, hasPrefaceBy, William Lloyd Garrison]
Generated description
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known for founding and editing the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator and advocating immediate emancipation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lloyd Garrison
Target entity description: William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known for founding and editing the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator and advocating immediate emancipation.
  • A. Henry Ward Beecher
    Henry Ward Beecher was a prominent 19th-century American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and abolitionist known for his powerful preaching against slavery.
  • B. Calvin Ellis Stowe
    Calvin Ellis Stowe was an American biblical scholar and professor best known for his influential work in religious education and as the husband of author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • D. Lyman Beecher
    Lyman Beecher was a prominent 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and revivalist leader known for his influential role in the Second Great Awakening and his strong advocacy of temperance and social reform.
  • E. Julia Ward Howe
    Julia Ward Howe was an American poet, author, and social reformer best known for writing the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and for her leadership in the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasPrefaceBy
Context triple: [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, hasPrefaceBy, William Lloyd Garrison]
  • A. preambleBeginsWith
    Indicates that the preamble of a document or text starts with a specified substring, phrase, or content.
  • B. hasPublisher
    Indicates that an entity is published or issued by a specific publisher.
  • C. hasPublication
    Indicates that an entity is associated with or responsible for a specific publication.
  • D. hasAuthor
    Indicates that an entity is written or created by a specific author.
  • E. hasCompanionBook
    Indicates that one entity (typically a primary work) is associated with another entity that serves as its companion book, providing supplementary or related content.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69a2506c5428819085c28a8884790e29 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a258e0b11c8190b7b5cf3c354c47ce completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b85e7e4881909322c67388d64247 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b9df510c81909e784b5e036a9e97 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2ba52c37c8190a6772c7f3fac71b8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a25646d5088190a057989c32da3a90 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69a258de46888190835db2b21a093eaa completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.