Triple

T1855963
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Lee Higginson E41701 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object George Higginson
George Higginson was the father of American businessman and philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson, known for his role in Boston’s prominent Higginson family.
E258472 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: George Higginson | Statement: [Henry Lee Higginson, father, George Higginson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Higginson
Context triple: [Henry Lee Higginson, father, George Higginson]
  • A. Arthur S. Carpender
    Arthur S. Carpender was a United States Navy admiral and World War II destroyer commander known for his leadership in the Pacific theater.
  • B. William R. Day
    William R. Day was an American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who played a key role in ending the Spanish–American War.
  • C. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • D. Horace Walker
    Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
  • E. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • 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: George Higginson
Triple: [Henry Lee Higginson, father, George Higginson]
Generated description
George Higginson was the father of American businessman and philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson, known for his role in Boston’s prominent Higginson family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Higginson
Target entity description: George Higginson was the father of American businessman and philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson, known for his role in Boston’s prominent Higginson family.
  • A. Arthur S. Carpender
    Arthur S. Carpender was a United States Navy admiral and World War II destroyer commander known for his leadership in the Pacific theater.
  • B. William R. Day
    William R. Day was an American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who played a key role in ending the Spanish–American War.
  • C. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • D. Horace Walker
    Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
  • E. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • 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_69a8864a83848190a4ec02721306c511 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb07e5ed48190a7b8858e2b355109 completed March 7, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae95e5cf008190a6638bb2c8d4d505 completed March 9, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae9694c390819095b3e935224902d3 completed March 9, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae9a5b2a04819091b102c51a5b2af4 completed March 9, 2026, 10 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.