Triple

T1908911
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Ramsay McCulloch E38062 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation is a comprehensive 19th-century reference work by economist John Ramsay McCulloch that systematically surveys global trade, commercial practices, and economic principles.
E211902 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: A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation | Statement: [John Ramsay McCulloch, notableWork, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation
Context triple: [John Ramsay McCulloch, notableWork, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation]
  • A. A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language
    A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language is an early American English dictionary by lexicographer Noah Webster that helped standardize American spelling and usage in the early 19th century.
  • B. Letters on Commercial Policy
    "Letters on Commercial Policy" is an influential 19th-century economic treatise by Robert Torrens that analyzes and advocates principles of international trade and commercial policy.
  • C. An American Dictionary of the English Language
    An American Dictionary of the English Language is Noah Webster’s landmark 1828 dictionary that helped standardize American English spelling and usage.
  • D. Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
    The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was a 17th-century English chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade with West Africa, including a major role in the early transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. On the Catalogue of Ships
    On the Catalogue of Ships is an ancient scholarly work by Apollodorus of Athens that analyzes and comments on the famous ship list in Book 2 of Homer’s Iliad.
  • 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: A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation
Triple: [John Ramsay McCulloch, notableWork, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation]
Generated description
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation is a comprehensive 19th-century reference work by economist John Ramsay McCulloch that systematically surveys global trade, commercial practices, and economic principles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation
Target entity description: A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation is a comprehensive 19th-century reference work by economist John Ramsay McCulloch that systematically surveys global trade, commercial practices, and economic principles.
  • A. A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language
    A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language is an early American English dictionary by lexicographer Noah Webster that helped standardize American spelling and usage in the early 19th century.
  • B. Letters on Commercial Policy
    "Letters on Commercial Policy" is an influential 19th-century economic treatise by Robert Torrens that analyzes and advocates principles of international trade and commercial policy.
  • C. An American Dictionary of the English Language
    An American Dictionary of the English Language is Noah Webster’s landmark 1828 dictionary that helped standardize American English spelling and usage.
  • D. Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
    The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was a 17th-century English chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade with West Africa, including a major role in the early transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. On the Catalogue of Ships
    On the Catalogue of Ships is an ancient scholarly work by Apollodorus of Athens that analyzes and comments on the famous ship list in Book 2 of Homer’s Iliad.
  • 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_69a8862a26088190aae5243695aeefc0 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb1b55edc8190bce8ac97196939a9 completed March 7, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adeafdad3c8190be7aeaed8bdeac43 completed March 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adeb7075f48190a27b5039c3b4691e completed March 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adec37a4f88190961edf8f9c81773c completed March 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.