Triple

T20033760
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Penn E497204 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object John Penn the American
John Penn the American was a colonial-era Pennsylvania proprietor and politician, and the last colonial governor of Pennsylvania before the American Revolution.
E1406664 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 Penn the American | Statement: [Thomas Penn, sibling, John Penn the American]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Penn the American
Context triple: [Thomas Penn, sibling, John Penn the American]
  • A. Edward Bullough
    Edward Bullough was a British aesthetician and scholar best known for his influential work on the concept of "psychical distance" in the philosophy of art.
  • B. Samuel Parr
    Samuel Parr was an 18th–19th century English schoolmaster, clergyman, and classical scholar renowned for his erudition and influence in educational and literary circles.
  • C. Edmund Pennington
    Edmund Pennington was a prominent railroad executive after whom Pennington County in South Dakota was named.
  • D. George Bullough
    George Bullough was a wealthy British industrialist and landowner best known for owning and lavishly developing the Scottish island of Rum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. John Pendleton
    John Pendleton is a wealthy, reclusive bachelor in the novel "Pollyanna" whose initially cold demeanor softens as he becomes a key figure in the young heroine’s life.
  • 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 Penn the American
Triple: [Thomas Penn, sibling, John Penn the American]
Generated description
John Penn the American was a colonial-era Pennsylvania proprietor and politician, and the last colonial governor of Pennsylvania before the American Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Penn the American
Target entity description: John Penn the American was a colonial-era Pennsylvania proprietor and politician, and the last colonial governor of Pennsylvania before the American Revolution.
  • A. Edward Bullough
    Edward Bullough was a British aesthetician and scholar best known for his influential work on the concept of "psychical distance" in the philosophy of art.
  • B. Samuel Parr
    Samuel Parr was an 18th–19th century English schoolmaster, clergyman, and classical scholar renowned for his erudition and influence in educational and literary circles.
  • C. Edmund Pennington
    Edmund Pennington was a prominent railroad executive after whom Pennington County in South Dakota was named.
  • D. George Bullough
    George Bullough was a wealthy British industrialist and landowner best known for owning and lavishly developing the Scottish island of Rum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. John Pendleton
    John Pendleton is a wealthy, reclusive bachelor in the novel "Pollyanna" whose initially cold demeanor softens as he becomes a key figure in the young heroine’s life.
  • 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_69da627278c88190babe4297a9df1236 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e662e6a7e481908069c1de2b3f94e0 completed April 20, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a080e376d888190ae9ba908dac771b4 completed May 16, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a080ee7dfe081909bf288e7b8944a75 completed May 16, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a080f517f1c81909c66b9a542fddd6b completed May 16, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:36 p.m.