Triple

T1574119
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Green-Wood Cemetery E33608 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object David Bates Douglass
David Bates Douglass was a 19th-century American civil engineer and landscape designer known for his influential work on rural cemeteries and public grounds.
E179595 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 Bates Douglass | Statement: [Green-Wood Cemetery, designer, David Bates Douglass]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Bates Douglass
Context triple: [Green-Wood Cemetery, designer, David Bates Douglass]
  • A. Lewis Henry Douglass
    Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Calvin Ellis Stowe
    Calvin Ellis Stowe was an American biblical scholar and professor best known for his influential work in religious education and as the husband of author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • C. Archibald Grimké
    Archibald Grimké was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who played a key role in the early struggle against racial discrimination in the United States.
  • D. Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman whose autobiographies became foundational works in American and African American literature.
  • E. Wendell Phillips Garrison
    Wendell Phillips Garrison was an American editor and author best known for his long tenure as literary editor of The Nation and for advancing the reformist and abolitionist legacy of his family.
  • 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 Bates Douglass
Triple: [Green-Wood Cemetery, designer, David Bates Douglass]
Generated description
David Bates Douglass was a 19th-century American civil engineer and landscape designer known for his influential work on rural cemeteries and public grounds.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Bates Douglass
Target entity description: David Bates Douglass was a 19th-century American civil engineer and landscape designer known for his influential work on rural cemeteries and public grounds.
  • A. Lewis Henry Douglass
    Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Calvin Ellis Stowe
    Calvin Ellis Stowe was an American biblical scholar and professor best known for his influential work in religious education and as the husband of author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • C. Archibald Grimké
    Archibald Grimké was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who played a key role in the early struggle against racial discrimination in the United States.
  • D. Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman whose autobiographies became foundational works in American and African American literature.
  • E. Wendell Phillips Garrison
    Wendell Phillips Garrison was an American editor and author best known for his long tenure as literary editor of The Nation and for advancing the reformist and abolitionist legacy of his family.
  • 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_69a885f27a4c8190a4622252cdf54c00 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a908bcd87881908b911314a30dd327 completed March 5, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad4028bc5881909dbe847229dd63bb completed March 8, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad41930d208190b34531e3f35fa58b completed March 8, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad422752348190b42ebc3781a6e8a5 completed March 8, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.