Triple

T199890
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Nelson (publisher family) E4079 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Thomas Nelson (publisher, born 1780)
Thomas Nelson (born 1780) was a Scottish publisher who significantly expanded the family’s printing and publishing business, helping to establish Thomas Nelson & Sons as a major 19th-century publishing house.
E4079 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: Thomas Nelson (publisher, born 1780) | Statement: [Thomas Nelson (publisher family), hasMember, Thomas Nelson (publisher, born 1780)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Nelson (publisher, born 1780)
Context triple: [Thomas Nelson (publisher family), hasMember, Thomas Nelson (publisher, born 1780)]
  • A. Thomas Nelson (publisher family)
    Thomas Nelson (publisher family) refers to the Scottish family behind the historic Thomas Nelson publishing house, influential in religious and educational publishing from the 19th century onward.
  • B. Charles Thomson
    Charles Thomson was an American patriot and political leader best known for serving as the long-time secretary of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
  • C. John Dickinson
    John Dickinson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his influential writings advocating colonial rights and cautious resistance to British rule.
  • D. Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
  • E. Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin was a leading American polymath of the 18th century, renowned as a statesman, inventor, writer, and key figure in the American Enlightenment and the founding of the United States.
  • 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: Thomas Nelson (publisher, born 1780)
Triple: [Thomas Nelson (publisher family), hasMember, Thomas Nelson (publisher, born 1780)]
Generated description
Thomas Nelson (born 1780) was a Scottish publisher who significantly expanded the family’s printing and publishing business, helping to establish Thomas Nelson & Sons as a major 19th-century publishing house.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Nelson (publisher, born 1780)
Target entity description: Thomas Nelson (born 1780) was a Scottish publisher who significantly expanded the family’s printing and publishing business, helping to establish Thomas Nelson & Sons as a major 19th-century publishing house.
  • A. Thomas Nelson (publisher family) chosen
    Thomas Nelson (publisher family) refers to the Scottish family behind the historic Thomas Nelson publishing house, influential in religious and educational publishing from the 19th century onward.
  • B. Charles Thomson
    Charles Thomson was an American patriot and political leader best known for serving as the long-time secretary of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
  • C. John Dickinson
    John Dickinson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his influential writings advocating colonial rights and cautious resistance to British rule.
  • D. Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
  • E. Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin was a leading American polymath of the 18th century, renowned as a statesman, inventor, writer, and key figure in the American Enlightenment and the founding of the United States.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a254bca59881909a15e1496f1508c7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25bcc6dc88190b8c24b485588dfe4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a32812176c8190987df03dc08b47a9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a328ddce8c819096e26296d1f77820 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3293046f081909ae5468be1589c91 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:43 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.