Triple

T162276
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Treaty of Alliance (1778) E3313 entity
Predicate negotiatedBy P378 FINISHED
Object Silas Deane
Silas Deane was an American diplomat and Continental Congress delegate who played a key role in securing French support for the American Revolution.
E30836 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: Silas Deane | Statement: [Treaty of Alliance (1778), negotiatedBy, Silas Deane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas Deane
Context triple: [Treaty of Alliance (1778), negotiatedBy, Silas Deane]
  • A. Henry Laurens
    Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
  • B. Charles Thomson
    Charles Thomson was an American patriot and political leader best known for serving as the long-time secretary of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
  • C. Robert R. Livingston
    Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
  • D. Richard Henry Lee
    Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia who introduced the resolution for independence in the Continental Congress and later signed the Declaration of Independence.
  • E. Marquis de Lafayette
    Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key ally of the American Revolution and later an influential figure in the French Revolution.
  • 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: Silas Deane
Triple: [Treaty of Alliance (1778), negotiatedBy, Silas Deane]
Generated description
Silas Deane was an American diplomat and Continental Congress delegate who played a key role in securing French support for the American Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas Deane
Target entity description: Silas Deane was an American diplomat and Continental Congress delegate who played a key role in securing French support for the American Revolution.
  • A. Henry Laurens
    Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
  • B. Charles Thomson
    Charles Thomson was an American patriot and political leader best known for serving as the long-time secretary of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
  • C. Robert R. Livingston
    Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
  • D. Richard Henry Lee
    Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia who introduced the resolution for independence in the Continental Congress and later signed the Declaration of Independence.
  • E. Marquis de Lafayette
    Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key ally of the American Revolution and later an influential figure in the French Revolution.
  • 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_69a2527757ec819090b8becb2cf1a862 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2585877648190a2ec320182a69343 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3672cae0c819086233f16cc2003de completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a367aa62f481908414358a21667187 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3686970ac81908ba7efe90feb26fd completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.