Triple

T1372582
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harper's Weekly E30145 entity
Predicate featuredContributor P997 FINISHED
Object George William Curtis
George William Curtis was a 19th-century American writer, editor, and political reformer known for his influential essays and commentary on civil service reform and liberal politics.
E203574 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: George William Curtis | Statement: [Harper's Weekly, featuredContributor, George William Curtis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George William Curtis
Context triple: [Harper's Weekly, featuredContributor, George William Curtis]
  • A. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • B. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • C. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • D. Hugh Wheeler
    Hugh Wheeler was a British Army officer best known for his controversial leadership and death during the 1857 Indian Rebellion at Cawnpore.
  • E. John Purroy Mitchel
    John Purroy Mitchel was a reform-minded American politician who served as the 95th mayor of New York City from 1914 to 1917 and was known as the "Boy Mayor" for his youth and progressive agenda.
  • 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: George William Curtis
Triple: [Harper's Weekly, featuredContributor, George William Curtis]
Generated description
George William Curtis was a 19th-century American writer, editor, and political reformer known for his influential essays and commentary on civil service reform and liberal politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George William Curtis
Target entity description: George William Curtis was a 19th-century American writer, editor, and political reformer known for his influential essays and commentary on civil service reform and liberal politics.
  • A. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • B. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • C. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • D. Hugh Wheeler
    Hugh Wheeler was a British Army officer best known for his controversial leadership and death during the 1857 Indian Rebellion at Cawnpore.
  • E. John Purroy Mitchel
    John Purroy Mitchel was a reform-minded American politician who served as the 95th mayor of New York City from 1914 to 1917 and was known as the "Boy Mayor" for his youth and progressive agenda.
  • 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_69a498f912008190a376a98b207b2071 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c48e6534819090d23f3cc25093ae completed March 1, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf3a615c8190a428d049de4ba023 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc07e9ebc819082566cc98025b4ae completed March 8, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc12c894881909c9a82fc9e363a41 completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:57 p.m.