Triple

T2272859
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject De Witt E50699 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Simeon De Witt
Simeon De Witt was an American surveyor and cartographer who served as Surveyor General of New York for over fifty years, playing a key role in mapping and planning the state after the Revolutionary War.
E250854 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: Simeon De Witt | Statement: [De Witt, hasNotableBearer, Simeon De Witt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Simeon De Witt
Context triple: [De Witt, hasNotableBearer, Simeon De Witt]
  • A. William Samuel Johnson
    William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.
  • B. Nicholas Herkimer
    Nicholas Herkimer was an American Revolutionary War militia general from New York, best known for leading colonial forces at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.
  • C. Abraham Van Brunt
    Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • D. Stephen Van Rensselaer
    Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • E. George S. Clinton
    George S. Clinton is an American composer best known for his work on film scores, particularly for the Austin Powers comedy series.
  • 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: Simeon De Witt
Triple: [De Witt, hasNotableBearer, Simeon De Witt]
Generated description
Simeon De Witt was an American surveyor and cartographer who served as Surveyor General of New York for over fifty years, playing a key role in mapping and planning the state after the Revolutionary War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Simeon De Witt
Target entity description: Simeon De Witt was an American surveyor and cartographer who served as Surveyor General of New York for over fifty years, playing a key role in mapping and planning the state after the Revolutionary War.
  • A. William Samuel Johnson
    William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.
  • B. Nicholas Herkimer
    Nicholas Herkimer was an American Revolutionary War militia general from New York, best known for leading colonial forces at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.
  • C. Abraham Van Brunt
    Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • D. Stephen Van Rensselaer
    Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • E. George S. Clinton
    George S. Clinton is an American composer best known for his work on film scores, particularly for the Austin Powers comedy series.
  • 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1e872448190a1d6c6071b2a294b completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71ddc66c81909525394a8b2bb4e0 completed March 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae75ba1a988190ba59d3ce5e5c39a8 completed March 9, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae76246f6c81909a15262d2c4ea975 completed March 9, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.