Triple

T1268968
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herman Melville E15665 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Gansevoort Melville
Gansevoort Melville was an American lawyer, political activist, and diplomat best known as the older brother and early supporter of novelist Herman Melville.
E145053 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: Gansevoort Melville | Statement: [Herman Melville, sibling, Gansevoort Melville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gansevoort Melville
Context triple: [Herman Melville, sibling, Gansevoort Melville]
  • A. Thom Schuyler
    Thom Schuyler is an American country music songwriter and singer best known for penning numerous hits in the 1980s and serving as a prominent figure in Nashville’s songwriting community.
  • B. Melville
    Melville is a masculine given name most famously associated with the American novelist Herman Melville, author of "Moby-Dick."
  • C. Stephen Van Rensselaer
    Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • D. Philo Delano
    Philo Delano was a member of the prominent Delano family, an American lineage known for its historical influence and connections to notable political figures.
  • E. Port Lawrence
    Port Lawrence was an early 19th-century settlement on the Maumee River that later became part of the city of Toledo, Ohio.
  • 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: Gansevoort Melville
Triple: [Herman Melville, sibling, Gansevoort Melville]
Generated description
Gansevoort Melville was an American lawyer, political activist, and diplomat best known as the older brother and early supporter of novelist Herman Melville.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gansevoort Melville
Target entity description: Gansevoort Melville was an American lawyer, political activist, and diplomat best known as the older brother and early supporter of novelist Herman Melville.
  • A. Thom Schuyler
    Thom Schuyler is an American country music songwriter and singer best known for penning numerous hits in the 1980s and serving as a prominent figure in Nashville’s songwriting community.
  • B. Melville
    Melville is a masculine given name most famously associated with the American novelist Herman Melville, author of "Moby-Dick."
  • C. Stephen Van Rensselaer
    Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • D. Philo Delano
    Philo Delano was a member of the prominent Delano family, an American lineage known for its historical influence and connections to notable political figures.
  • E. Port Lawrence
    Port Lawrence was an early 19th-century settlement on the Maumee River that later became part of the city of Toledo, Ohio.
  • 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_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c03aaa8c8190bacb7de5a38329da completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac99898bdc8190bbbe28083b4a548b completed March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9abcc2ec8190acdec5d7cbf42b42 completed March 7, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9b1ea9c48190ad1520f2f67111dd completed March 7, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.