Triple

T12945293
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph Ellicott E309744 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Andrew Ellicott
Andrew Ellicott was an American surveyor and cartographer known for his work mapping the boundaries of the early United States, including completing the survey of the District of Columbia.
E1011940 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: Andrew Ellicott | Statement: [Joseph Ellicott, sibling, Andrew Ellicott]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Ellicott
Context triple: [Joseph Ellicott, sibling, Andrew Ellicott]
  • A. Joseph Ellicott
    Joseph Ellicott was an early 19th-century American surveyor and land agent best known for laying out and helping to develop the city of Buffalo, New York.
  • B. William Smith Jewett
    William Smith Jewett was a 19th-century American painter known for his portraits and genre scenes.
  • C. Alfred Lanning
    Alfred Lanning is a fictional robotics scientist and key architect of the Three Laws of Robotics in Isaac Asimov’s robot stories.
  • D. Horatio G. Brooks
    Horatio G. Brooks was a 19th-century American industrialist and locomotive manufacturer best known for establishing the Brooks Locomotive Works.
  • E. George M. Bourne
    George M. Bourne was a notable individual interred at Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island, recognized locally for his prominence in the community.
  • 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: Andrew Ellicott
Triple: [Joseph Ellicott, sibling, Andrew Ellicott]
Generated description
Andrew Ellicott was an American surveyor and cartographer known for his work mapping the boundaries of the early United States, including completing the survey of the District of Columbia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Ellicott
Target entity description: Andrew Ellicott was an American surveyor and cartographer known for his work mapping the boundaries of the early United States, including completing the survey of the District of Columbia.
  • A. Joseph Ellicott
    Joseph Ellicott was an early 19th-century American surveyor and land agent best known for laying out and helping to develop the city of Buffalo, New York.
  • B. William Smith Jewett
    William Smith Jewett was a 19th-century American painter known for his portraits and genre scenes.
  • C. Alfred Lanning
    Alfred Lanning is a fictional robotics scientist and key architect of the Three Laws of Robotics in Isaac Asimov’s robot stories.
  • D. Horatio G. Brooks
    Horatio G. Brooks was a 19th-century American industrialist and locomotive manufacturer best known for establishing the Brooks Locomotive Works.
  • E. George M. Bourne
    George M. Bourne was a notable individual interred at Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island, recognized locally for his prominence in the community.
  • 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_69d7bdfb57a88190836b743e2825feca completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e1b3694819098527dcea3cfed93 completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af73e6348190be114e8c5ad181bf completed May 3, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b066f3888190b925e5a43be57965 completed May 3, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b1a539148190be7a4f16f738ca90 completed May 3, 2026, 2:23 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:43 p.m.