Triple

T2093461
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William H. Seward E32724 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Henry Seward Jr.
William Henry Seward Jr. was an American banker and Union Army brigadier general during the Civil War, known also as the son of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward.
E244356 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 Henry Seward Jr. | Statement: [William H. Seward, child, William Henry Seward Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Seward Jr.
Context triple: [William H. Seward, child, William Henry Seward Jr.]
  • A. William H. Seward
    William H. Seward was a 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and was a leading figure in the Union war effort and postwar expansion.
  • B. Frederick William Seward
    Frederick William Seward was an American politician and diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State during his father William H. Seward’s tenure as U.S. Secretary of State, notably surviving an assassination attempt the night of Abraham Lincoln’s murder.
  • C. Levi P. Morton
    Levi P. Morton was an American politician, banker, and diplomat who served as the 22nd vice president of the United States and later as governor of New York.
  • D. William G. Marcy
    William G. Marcy was an American political figure who served as secretary of California’s 1849 constitutional convention, helping to organize the foundational framework of the state’s government.
  • E. John Hay
    John Hay was an influential American statesman, diplomat, and author who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
  • 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 Henry Seward Jr.
Triple: [William H. Seward, child, William Henry Seward Jr.]
Generated description
William Henry Seward Jr. was an American banker and Union Army brigadier general during the Civil War, known also as the son of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Seward Jr.
Target entity description: William Henry Seward Jr. was an American banker and Union Army brigadier general during the Civil War, known also as the son of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • A. William H. Seward
    William H. Seward was a 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and was a leading figure in the Union war effort and postwar expansion.
  • B. Frederick William Seward
    Frederick William Seward was an American politician and diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State during his father William H. Seward’s tenure as U.S. Secretary of State, notably surviving an assassination attempt the night of Abraham Lincoln’s murder.
  • C. Levi P. Morton
    Levi P. Morton was an American politician, banker, and diplomat who served as the 22nd vice president of the United States and later as governor of New York.
  • D. William G. Marcy
    William G. Marcy was an American political figure who served as secretary of California’s 1849 constitutional convention, helping to organize the foundational framework of the state’s government.
  • E. John Hay
    John Hay was an influential American statesman, diplomat, and author who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
  • 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_69a885eba0708190999696a45cbec816 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abba98c32081908a243bc7088a1510 completed March 7, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae652ce3108190999ce10fe915aba1 completed March 9, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6608d3ac8190923cd6a6ce7c4c89 completed March 9, 2026, 6:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae66a751f881908fda164de72dac9b completed March 9, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.