Triple

T20023331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Cushing E494914 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object John Cushing
John Cushing was a member of the prominent Cushing family of colonial New England, known for its influential role in early American legal and political life.
E1410403 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: John Cushing | Statement: [William Cushing, father, John Cushing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Cushing
Context triple: [William Cushing, father, John Cushing]
  • A. John Perkins Cushing
    John Perkins Cushing was a wealthy 19th-century American China trader and philanthropist based in Boston.
  • B. John Cox Stevens
    John Cox Stevens was a prominent 19th-century American sportsman and businessman best known for his leading role in early yachting and competitive sailing.
  • C. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • D. William A. Rutherford
    William A. Rutherford was a landscape designer known for shaping the grounds of major cultural sites such as the Storm King Art Center.
  • E. Edwin Stanton McCook
    Edwin Stanton McCook was an American Civil War officer and prominent member of the influential "Fighting McCook" family who later served as a politician and territorial governor.
  • 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: John Cushing
Triple: [William Cushing, father, John Cushing]
Generated description
John Cushing was a member of the prominent Cushing family of colonial New England, known for its influential role in early American legal and political life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Cushing
Target entity description: John Cushing was a member of the prominent Cushing family of colonial New England, known for its influential role in early American legal and political life.
  • A. John Perkins Cushing
    John Perkins Cushing was a wealthy 19th-century American China trader and philanthropist based in Boston.
  • B. John Cox Stevens
    John Cox Stevens was a prominent 19th-century American sportsman and businessman best known for his leading role in early yachting and competitive sailing.
  • C. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • D. William A. Rutherford
    William A. Rutherford was a landscape designer known for shaping the grounds of major cultural sites such as the Storm King Art Center.
  • E. Edwin Stanton McCook
    Edwin Stanton McCook was an American Civil War officer and prominent member of the influential "Fighting McCook" family who later served as a politician and territorial governor.
  • 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_69da626bfd288190aa5d65098b6433ae completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6628a1ecc8190bf6ee0bedb61e0b8 completed April 20, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a081f2b9e908190820c5bb3bf8bb28c completed May 16, 2026, 7:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08201f36b88190b3c80942de463d36 completed May 16, 2026, 7:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08208c203c819083abea34d10d5e4e completed May 16, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:35 p.m.