Triple

T18094877
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Mercanti E433057 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John Mercanti, an American sculptor and engraver who served as Chief Engraver of the United States Mint.
E1306989 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: John | Statement: [John Mercanti, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Mercanti, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • C. John
    John Ross is a personal name shared by various notable individuals across history, including leaders, politicians, and public figures.
  • D. John
    John is the first name of Jack Graney, a Canadian Major League Baseball player and later a pioneering baseball broadcaster.
  • E. John
    John is the given first name of the American Old West outlaw and gunfighter Johnny Ringo.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John Mercanti, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John Mercanti, an American sculptor and engraver who served as Chief Engraver of the United States Mint.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John Mercanti, an American sculptor and engraver who served as Chief Engraver of the United States Mint.
  • A. John
    John is the given first name of the American sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, known for his prominent 19th-century public monuments and statues.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Bacon, an 18th-century English sculptor known for his neoclassical works and prominent monuments.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Trumbull, an American artist best known for his historical paintings of the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Henry Patterson, an American industrialist and founder of the National Cash Register Company.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Hay Whitney, an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, and prominent art patron.
  • 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_69d8b907d05c819083cc3bd6021089e6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4dd1b670081908e1e1083436da04e completed April 19, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a037c1a1390819092d68ddc32e4479f completed May 12, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a037cfd596481909d0c361a11185194 completed May 12, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a037e7bbd1c8190a88f57cdf5bf30f5 completed May 12, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:27 a.m.