Triple

T2404503
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Worcester Polytechnic Institute E50244 entity
Predicate founders P104 FINISHED
Object John Boynton
John Boynton was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping to establish Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
E262936 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: John Boynton | Statement: [Worcester Polytechnic Institute, founders, John Boynton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Boynton
Context triple: [Worcester Polytechnic Institute, founders, John Boynton]
  • A. Arthur H. Gorson
    Arthur H. Gorson is a film and music producer known for his work on projects such as the horror film "Cronos" and for collaborating with notable directors and musicians.
  • B. John Norville
    John Norville is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
  • C. Joseph Borden McKean
    Joseph Borden McKean was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
  • D. Basil Embry
    Basil Embry was a distinguished Royal Air Force officer and World War II air commander who later became Chief of the Air Staff of the RAF.
  • E. William Beaudine
    William Beaudine was a highly prolific American film and television director whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1960s, encompassing hundreds of low-budget features and TV episodes.
  • 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: John Boynton
Triple: [Worcester Polytechnic Institute, founders, John Boynton]
Generated description
John Boynton was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping to establish Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Boynton
Target entity description: John Boynton was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping to establish Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
  • A. Arthur H. Gorson
    Arthur H. Gorson is a film and music producer known for his work on projects such as the horror film "Cronos" and for collaborating with notable directors and musicians.
  • B. John Norville
    John Norville is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
  • C. Joseph Borden McKean
    Joseph Borden McKean was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
  • D. Basil Embry
    Basil Embry was a distinguished Royal Air Force officer and World War II air commander who later became Chief of the Air Staff of the RAF.
  • E. William Beaudine
    William Beaudine was a highly prolific American film and television director whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1960s, encompassing hundreds of low-budget features and TV episodes.
  • 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_69a88b0339a88190a1207333cd271cc9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc8fa151081909bc6be528b29b315 completed March 7, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3e740c88190872aa1a7834d73b0 completed March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeb4b942b08190addc2885fbda0e41 completed March 9, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeb557247c8190920ce3a5db388800 completed March 9, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:58 p.m.