Triple

T2272863
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject De Witt E50699 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William De Witt
William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
E254792 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 De Witt | Statement: [De Witt, hasNotableBearer, William De Witt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William De Witt
Context triple: [De Witt, hasNotableBearer, William De Witt]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Thomas De Witt
    Thomas De Witt is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, most commonly associated with American clergymen and public figures from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. 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.
  • 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. 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.”
  • 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 De Witt
Triple: [De Witt, hasNotableBearer, William De Witt]
Generated description
William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William De Witt
Target entity description: William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Thomas De Witt
    Thomas De Witt is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, most commonly associated with American clergymen and public figures from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. 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.
  • 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. 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.”
  • 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_69ae894a20e0819097f08959f7a062ef completed March 9, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae89e2efd48190a2f0a4702dcbc081 completed March 9, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8a7726dc8190a18f7f1e1609253a completed March 9, 2026, 8:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.