Triple

T121373
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alaska Purchase E2450 entity
Predicate negotiatedBy P378 FINISHED
Object William H. Seward
William H. Seward was a 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and was a leading figure in the Union war effort and postwar expansion.
E32724 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: William H. Seward | Statement: [Alaska Purchase, negotiatedBy, William H. Seward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William H. Seward
Context triple: [Alaska Purchase, negotiatedBy, William H. Seward]
  • A. Charles L. McNary
    Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
  • B. Hannibal Hamlin
    Hannibal Hamlin was an American politician from Maine who served as the first vice president under President Abraham Lincoln during the early years of the Civil War.
  • C. John Taylor Johnston
    John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
  • D. George M. Dallas
    George M. Dallas was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
  • E. Lyman Trumbull
    Lyman Trumbull was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Illinois who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the shaping of Reconstruction-era legislation.
  • 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 H. Seward
Triple: [Alaska Purchase, negotiatedBy, William H. Seward]
Generated description
William H. Seward was a 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and was a leading figure in the Union war effort and postwar expansion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William H. Seward
Target entity description: William H. Seward was a 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and was a leading figure in the Union war effort and postwar expansion.
  • A. Charles L. McNary
    Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
  • B. Hannibal Hamlin
    Hannibal Hamlin was an American politician from Maine who served as the first vice president under President Abraham Lincoln during the early years of the Civil War.
  • C. John Taylor Johnston
    John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
  • D. George M. Dallas
    George M. Dallas was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
  • E. Lyman Trumbull
    Lyman Trumbull was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Illinois who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the shaping of Reconstruction-era legislation.
  • 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_69a2506c5428819085c28a8884790e29 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25739ef28819093f3f0e6bb670201 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a37656c324819099761a1d5ae00637 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a376c686048190aec0abd9c6999663 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a377aa34cc81908820a5c970d1ecf6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.