Triple
T22765701
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony |
E563116
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
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FINISHED |
| Object | William Pynchon |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Pynchon | Statement: [Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, foundedBy, William Pynchon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Pynchon Context triple: [Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, foundedBy, William Pynchon]
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A.
William Pynchon
chosen
William Pynchon was a 17th-century English colonist, fur trader, and magistrate in New England, best known as an early Puritan settler and controversial religious writer.
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B.
Waitstill Winthrop
Waitstill Winthrop was a late 17th- and early 18th-century New England magistrate and politician, known for serving as chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court and for his involvement in the aftermath of the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Ephraim Winslow
Ephraim Winslow is the troubled young wickie portrayed by Robert Pattinson in the psychological horror film "The Lighthouse."
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D.
Matthew Maule
Matthew Maule is a fictional figure in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The House of the Seven Gables," originally the land’s owner whose dispossession and execution for witchcraft cast a long curse over the Pyncheon family.
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E.
Rufus Putnam
Rufus Putnam was an American Revolutionary War officer and surveyor known as the “Father of the Northwest Territory” for his leading role in settling and organizing the Ohio Country.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e24552e11c81909c2d61578a558bd7 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f17a80249c819091569e7b8d500b45 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 3:26 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:26 p.m.