Triple

T1866491
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ticknor and Fields E34932 entity
Predicate hasKeyPerson P256 FINISHED
Object William Davis Ticknor E229157 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: William Davis Ticknor | Statement: [Ticknor and Fields, hasKeyPerson, 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, hasKeyPerson, William Davis Ticknor]
  • A. William Davis Ticknor chosen
    William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
  • B. William Starr Miller
    William Starr Miller was a prominent early 20th-century American industrialist and real estate developer whose Fifth Avenue mansion later became the home of the Neue Galerie New York.
  • C. Sir William Trumbull
    Sir William Trumbull was an English diplomat, lawyer, and statesman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, noted for serving as Secretary of State under William III and for his connections with leading literary figures of his time.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Daniel Huntington
    Daniel Huntington was a prominent 19th-century American painter known for his portraits and historical scenes.
  • 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_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_69ae95e5cf008190a6638bb2c8d4d505 completed March 9, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.