Triple

T12144808
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sedgwick Memorial Medal E289289 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Thompson Sedgwick
William Thompson Sedgwick was an influential American public health bacteriologist and educator whose work helped establish modern sanitary science and epidemiology in the United States.
E970647 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 Thompson Sedgwick | Statement: [Sedgwick Memorial Medal, namedAfter, William Thompson Sedgwick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thompson Sedgwick
Context triple: [Sedgwick Memorial Medal, namedAfter, William Thompson Sedgwick]
  • A. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • B. Arthur Dehon Little
    Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and pioneering management consultant who co-founded one of the world’s first consulting firms, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
  • C. William Edmond Logan
    William Edmond Logan was a 19th-century Canadian geologist renowned for pioneering geological mapping in Canada and leading the early development of the country’s geological sciences.
  • D. Benjamin Silliman
    Benjamin Silliman was a pioneering American chemist and geologist, one of Yale College’s first science professors, and a key figure in the early development of scientific education in the United States.
  • E. George Combe Mann
    George Combe Mann was a son of American education reformer Horace Mann, likely known primarily through his connection to his prominent father.
  • 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 Thompson Sedgwick
Triple: [Sedgwick Memorial Medal, namedAfter, William Thompson Sedgwick]
Generated description
William Thompson Sedgwick was an influential American public health bacteriologist and educator whose work helped establish modern sanitary science and epidemiology in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thompson Sedgwick
Target entity description: William Thompson Sedgwick was an influential American public health bacteriologist and educator whose work helped establish modern sanitary science and epidemiology in the United States.
  • A. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • B. Arthur Dehon Little
    Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and pioneering management consultant who co-founded one of the world’s first consulting firms, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
  • C. William Edmond Logan
    William Edmond Logan was a 19th-century Canadian geologist renowned for pioneering geological mapping in Canada and leading the early development of the country’s geological sciences.
  • D. Benjamin Silliman
    Benjamin Silliman was a pioneering American chemist and geologist, one of Yale College’s first science professors, and a key figure in the early development of scientific education in the United States.
  • E. George Combe Mann
    George Combe Mann was a son of American education reformer Horace Mann, likely known primarily through his connection to his prominent father.
  • 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_69d6ab4c6710819097a9d228382dde43 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915aacaa08190b31f54e230334406 completed April 10, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60a7e24ac819083e85fb8edb2ed2c completed May 2, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60bdb39f48190ad6bc51db6c34163 completed May 2, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60d4d95288190a46bf0e54afca338 completed May 2, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.