Triple

T1866489
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ticknor and Fields E34932 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Davis Ticknor
William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
E229157 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: William Davis Ticknor | Statement: [Ticknor and Fields, foundedBy, William Davis Ticknor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Davis Ticknor
Context triple: [Ticknor and Fields, foundedBy, William Davis Ticknor]
  • A. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • B. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • C. Horace White
    Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. George Bancroft
    George Bancroft was a 19th-century American historian, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of the Navy, best known for his multi-volume "History of the United States" and for helping establish the U.S. Naval Academy.
  • E. Abbott Lawrence
    Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
  • 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: William Davis Ticknor
Triple: [Ticknor and Fields, foundedBy, William Davis Ticknor]
Generated description
William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Davis Ticknor
Target entity description: William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
  • A. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • B. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • C. Horace White
    Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. George Bancroft
    George Bancroft was a 19th-century American historian, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of the Navy, best known for his multi-volume "History of the United States" and for helping establish the U.S. Naval Academy.
  • E. Abbott Lawrence
    Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
  • 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_69a88600b2f88190bc09303e68ab517e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb0b5978c81909390f2cbd716ccaf completed March 7, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae1fc7f4988190931e58d2f95b9049 completed March 9, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae2078f5bc81909e4226e4f4188e87 completed March 9, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae2121a43481908ea6eef3d4e06407 completed March 9, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.