Triple

T15685
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Massachusetts Bay Colony E313 entity
Predicate governor P537 FINISHED
Object Thomas Dudley
Thomas Dudley was a prominent early Puritan leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 17th-century New England.
E13099 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: Thomas Dudley | Statement: [Massachusetts Bay Colony, governor, Thomas Dudley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Dudley
Context triple: [Massachusetts Bay Colony, governor, Thomas Dudley]
  • A. John Winthrop
    John Winthrop was a 17th-century English Puritan leader and governor who played a central role in establishing and governing the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a model “city upon a hill.”
  • B. Henry Bacon
    Henry Bacon was an American architect best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Increase Mather
    Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
  • D. William Bradford
    William Bradford was a leader of the Pilgrims and longtime governor of Plymouth Colony who chronicled its early history in his famous work "Of Plymouth Plantation."
  • E. Giles Corey
    Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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: Thomas Dudley
Triple: [Massachusetts Bay Colony, governor, Thomas Dudley]
Generated description
Thomas Dudley was a prominent early Puritan leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 17th-century New England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Dudley
Target entity description: Thomas Dudley was a prominent early Puritan leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 17th-century New England.
  • A. John Winthrop
    John Winthrop was a 17th-century English Puritan leader and governor who played a central role in establishing and governing the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a model “city upon a hill.”
  • B. Henry Bacon
    Henry Bacon was an American architect best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Increase Mather
    Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
  • D. William Bradford
    William Bradford was a leader of the Pilgrims and longtime governor of Plymouth Colony who chronicled its early history in his famous work "Of Plymouth Plantation."
  • E. Giles Corey
    Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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_69a23d7ad88c8190bffe8ab091d86642 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2465c52d8819082bb02b8b539d6ab completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a29172b5b4819080efd4fe0d9658c6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2940c5a448190a7f5f9a24cd13440 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a295d0d658819085a125015f087dfb completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:02 a.m.