Triple

T2715917
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Law Institute E59966 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Samuel Williston
Samuel Williston was a prominent American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor best known for his influential treatises on contract law and his role in shaping modern American legal doctrine.
E295045 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: Samuel Williston | Statement: [American Law Institute, foundedBy, Samuel Williston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Williston
Context triple: [American Law Institute, foundedBy, Samuel Williston]
  • A. John Jay Shipherd
    John Jay Shipherd was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educational reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College and promoting progressive ideals such as coeducation and abolitionism.
  • B. John Jay
    John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
  • C. John P. Hale
    John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
  • D. William De Witt
    William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
  • E. Peleg Wadsworth
    Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • 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: Samuel Williston
Triple: [American Law Institute, foundedBy, Samuel Williston]
Generated description
Samuel Williston was a prominent American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor best known for his influential treatises on contract law and his role in shaping modern American legal doctrine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Williston
Target entity description: Samuel Williston was a prominent American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor best known for his influential treatises on contract law and his role in shaping modern American legal doctrine.
  • A. John Jay Shipherd
    John Jay Shipherd was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educational reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College and promoting progressive ideals such as coeducation and abolitionism.
  • B. John Jay
    John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
  • C. John P. Hale
    John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
  • D. William De Witt
    William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
  • E. Peleg Wadsworth
    Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • 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_69ab4ac92a088190bc74bca14038e3de completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abda94d3288190bd60bc886e2106c7 completed March 7, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afbbbe621881909e153290394798d6 completed March 10, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afbc67c39c8190b5932c0e23595f64 completed March 10, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afbd2d8a2c8190896a9154ebbd8bab completed March 10, 2026, 6:41 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:55 p.m.