Triple

T2328089
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Paterson E48335 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Bell Paterson
William Bell Paterson was the son of Scottish-born American founding father and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Paterson.
E257134 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 Bell Paterson | Statement: [William Paterson, child, William Bell Paterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bell Paterson
Context triple: [William Paterson, child, William Bell Paterson]
  • A. David G. Burnet
    David G. Burnet was an early political leader of the Republic of Texas who served as its interim president and later held other high offices in the fledgling Texan government.
  • B. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • C. Thomas W. Knox
    Thomas W. Knox was a 19th-century American journalist and author known for his Civil War reporting and popular travel and adventure books.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. Amos Kendall
    Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
  • 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 Bell Paterson
Triple: [William Paterson, child, William Bell Paterson]
Generated description
William Bell Paterson was the son of Scottish-born American founding father and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Paterson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bell Paterson
Target entity description: William Bell Paterson was the son of Scottish-born American founding father and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Paterson.
  • A. David G. Burnet
    David G. Burnet was an early political leader of the Republic of Texas who served as its interim president and later held other high offices in the fledgling Texan government.
  • B. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • C. Thomas W. Knox
    Thomas W. Knox was a 19th-century American journalist and author known for his Civil War reporting and popular travel and adventure books.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. Amos Kendall
    Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
  • 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_69a88aa308a88190b0b86c011fda7fce completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc64c7f1881909b0d847f7782e803 completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae9615f000819092f9dc4700998b25 completed March 9, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae96c5a6308190b970ec78984a4e8a completed March 9, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae9728ebc081908e00e318bcd60e57 completed March 9, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:50 p.m.