Triple

T2211330
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Josiah Winslow E50922 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object Thomas Hinckley
Thomas Hinckley was a colonial American politician who served as the last governor of Plymouth Colony before its merger into the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
 E245696 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 Hinckley | Statement: [Josiah Winslow, succeededBy, Thomas Hinckley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Hinckley
Context triple: [Josiah Winslow, succeededBy, Thomas Hinckley]
  • A. Roy J. Kennedy
    Roy J. Kennedy was an American physicist best known for co-devising the Kennedy–Thorndike experiment, a key test of special relativity.
  • B. Michael Maddox
    Michael Maddox was an English theatrical entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Russian theatre in the late 18th century, notably helping establish what became the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • C. John Allen
    John Allen was an American military officer and politician whose legacy includes having Allen County, Indiana, named in his honor.
  • D. John W. Regan
    John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
  • E. John Clarence Karcher
    John Clarence Karcher was an American geophysicist and pioneer of reflection seismology whose work helped lay the foundations of modern petroleum exploration.
  • 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 Hinckley
Triple: [Josiah Winslow, succeededBy, Thomas Hinckley]
Generated description
Thomas Hinckley was a colonial American politician who served as the last governor of Plymouth Colony before its merger into the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Hinckley
Target entity description: Thomas Hinckley was a colonial American politician who served as the last governor of Plymouth Colony before its merger into the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
  • A. Roy J. Kennedy
    Roy J. Kennedy was an American physicist best known for co-devising the Kennedy–Thorndike experiment, a key test of special relativity.
  • B. Michael Maddox
    Michael Maddox was an English theatrical entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Russian theatre in the late 18th century, notably helping establish what became the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • C. John Allen
    John Allen was an American military officer and politician whose legacy includes having Allen County, Indiana, named in his honor.
  • D. John W. Regan
    John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
  • E. John Clarence Karcher
    John Clarence Karcher was an American geophysicist and pioneer of reflection seismology whose work helped lay the foundations of modern petroleum exploration.
  • 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_69a88b06709c8190978fb2418470d1b6 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbfeb889081908cddf58a57b216df completed March 7, 2026, 6:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae655045d081909b8294ec706e0814 completed March 9, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae662f689881908ecd76952b78f863 completed March 9, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae668ef8bc819085ed1c83f447d396 completed March 9, 2026, 6:19 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.