Triple

T1949482
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fundamentalist–modernist controversy E42126 entity
Predicate notableFigure P4290 FINISHED
Object Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
E222369 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: Harry Emerson Fosdick | Statement: [Fundamentalist–modernist controversy, notableFigure, Harry Emerson Fosdick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Context triple: [Fundamentalist–modernist controversy, notableFigure, Harry Emerson Fosdick]
  • A. Carl F. H. Henry
    Carl F. H. Henry was a prominent 20th-century American evangelical theologian and author who helped shape modern evangelical thought and was a founding figure of Christianity Today magazine.
  • B. J. Gresham Machen
    J. Gresham Machen was an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar, best known for his defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism and for founding Westminster Theological Seminary.
  • C. R. A. Torrey
    R. A. Torrey was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and author known for his leadership in the Bible conference movement and his influential writings on Christian doctrine and prayer.
  • D. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
    Joseph Franklin Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society who reshaped the Bible Student movement into what became known as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
  • E. Reinhold Niebuhr
    Reinhold Niebuhr was a prominent 20th-century American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual best known for his work on Christian realism and the authorship of the Serenity Prayer.
  • 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: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Triple: [Fundamentalist–modernist controversy, notableFigure, Harry Emerson Fosdick]
Generated description
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Target entity description: Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
  • A. Carl F. H. Henry
    Carl F. H. Henry was a prominent 20th-century American evangelical theologian and author who helped shape modern evangelical thought and was a founding figure of Christianity Today magazine.
  • B. J. Gresham Machen
    J. Gresham Machen was an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar, best known for his defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism and for founding Westminster Theological Seminary.
  • C. R. A. Torrey
    R. A. Torrey was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and author known for his leadership in the Bible conference movement and his influential writings on Christian doctrine and prayer.
  • D. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
    Joseph Franklin Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society who reshaped the Bible Student movement into what became known as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
  • E. Reinhold Niebuhr
    Reinhold Niebuhr was a prominent 20th-century American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual best known for his work on Christian realism and the authorship of the Serenity Prayer.
  • 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_69a8870e08fc8190a319cbf2600db15f completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb3315df481908f60cd87453fbc03 completed March 7, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae03180a248190a0df96066923728a completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae03b41dcc81909b4439006bdffc64 completed March 8, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae044314188190a7472cf5f8e89f6c completed March 8, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.