Triple

T19651221
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joshua Bates E471817 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object William Sturgis (brother-in-law)
William Sturgis (brother-in-law) was a 19th-century American merchant and prominent Boston businessman connected by marriage to financier Joshua Bates.
E1388766 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 Sturgis (brother-in-law) | Statement: [Joshua Bates, relative, William Sturgis (brother-in-law)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sturgis (brother-in-law)
Context triple: [Joshua Bates, relative, William Sturgis (brother-in-law)]
  • A. Henry Stanton Jr.
    Henry Stanton Jr. was the son of American abolitionist and social reformer Henry Brewster Stanton.
  • B. William Woollatt
    William Woollatt was a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, an 18th–19th century scientific and intellectual society based in Derby, England.
  • C. William Stephens
    William Stephens was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
  • D. Joseph Stannard
    Joseph Stannard was a 19th-century English landscape and marine painter associated with the Norwich School, known for his detailed river and coastal scenes.
  • E. Theodore Stanton
    Theodore Stanton was an American journalist, editor, and author known for promoting women's rights and documenting the lives and work of prominent women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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 Sturgis (brother-in-law)
Triple: [Joshua Bates, relative, William Sturgis (brother-in-law)]
Generated description
William Sturgis (brother-in-law) was a 19th-century American merchant and prominent Boston businessman connected by marriage to financier Joshua Bates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sturgis (brother-in-law)
Target entity description: William Sturgis (brother-in-law) was a 19th-century American merchant and prominent Boston businessman connected by marriage to financier Joshua Bates.
  • A. Henry Stanton Jr.
    Henry Stanton Jr. was the son of American abolitionist and social reformer Henry Brewster Stanton.
  • B. William Woollatt
    William Woollatt was a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, an 18th–19th century scientific and intellectual society based in Derby, England.
  • C. William Stephens
    William Stephens was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
  • D. Joseph Stannard
    Joseph Stannard was a 19th-century English landscape and marine painter associated with the Norwich School, known for his detailed river and coastal scenes.
  • E. Theodore Stanton
    Theodore Stanton was an American journalist, editor, and author known for promoting women's rights and documenting the lives and work of prominent women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d8e51395348190ac1416d46dfc6db0 completed April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e64141f61c819098fe148581fb1747 completed April 20, 2026, 3:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a077eef87108190a3858836dce29341 completed May 15, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a077fb5d7288190a691e312ec22789b completed May 15, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07810b1de88190a2516712767fde52 completed May 15, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:44 p.m.