Triple
T1643624
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Otis Jr. |
E35528
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Otis Jr. |
E35528
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: James Otis Jr. | Statement: [James Otis Jr., fullName, James Otis Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Otis Jr. Context triple: [James Otis Jr., fullName, James Otis Jr.]
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A.
James Otis Jr.
chosen
James Otis Jr. was an influential colonial lawyer and early American revolutionary thinker whose arguments against British taxation helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the American Revolution.
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B.
Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Hutchinson was a Loyalist colonial governor and historian of Massachusetts whose staunch support for British authority made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
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C.
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine was an American Founding Father and lawyer best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts.
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D.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
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E.
Thomas Edwards
Thomas Edwards is a relatively common English personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, literature, and the arts.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88604618c81908b41f6429c431eb6 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a90a3f4d8c8190aa0a44d1c9b1a7f0 |
completed | March 5, 2026, 4:44 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad6818c8288190af5307384f1c8080 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:14 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.