Triple

T12747425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lincoln Prize E304640 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object David W. Blight
David W. Blight is an American historian and Yale professor renowned for his scholarship on the Civil War and the memory of slavery, particularly through works like his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Frederick Douglass.
 E1002400 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: David W. Blight | Statement: [Lincoln Prize, notableRecipient, David W. Blight]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David W. Blight
Context triple: [Lincoln Prize, notableRecipient, David W. Blight]
  • A. Allen C. Guelzo
    Allen C. Guelzo is an American historian and author renowned for his scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
  • B. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • C. Eric Foner
    Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
  • D. Robert N. Wilentz
    Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
  • E. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • 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: David W. Blight
Triple: [Lincoln Prize, notableRecipient, David W. Blight]
Generated description
David W. Blight is an American historian and Yale professor renowned for his scholarship on the Civil War and the memory of slavery, particularly through works like his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Frederick Douglass.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David W. Blight
Target entity description: David W. Blight is an American historian and Yale professor renowned for his scholarship on the Civil War and the memory of slavery, particularly through works like his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Frederick Douglass.
  • A. Allen C. Guelzo
    Allen C. Guelzo is an American historian and author renowned for his scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
  • B. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • C. Eric Foner
    Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
  • D. Robert N. Wilentz
    Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
  • E. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • 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_69d7bdf1426c8190a4402e1c4cdec33a completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96bd58d30819082af4edb4cd0b4ab completed April 10, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f684ee2ab4819099194d115d2e5a15 completed May 2, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6887fe8a08190b61831a13b656a89 completed May 2, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6890ad3188190be5a5b80e81ab958 completed May 2, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.