Triple

T2887935
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harriet Lane E59550 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object James Buchanan Johnston
James Buchanan Johnston was the adopted son and ward of Harriet Lane, the niece and de facto First Lady of U.S. President James Buchanan.
E311187 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: James Buchanan Johnston | Statement: [Harriet Lane, child, James Buchanan Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Buchanan Johnston
Context triple: [Harriet Lane, child, James Buchanan Johnston]
  • A. Zachary Taylor Davis
    Zachary Taylor Davis was an American architect best known for designing iconic early 20th-century baseball parks, including Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
  • B. Franklin Buchanan
    Franklin Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century American naval officer who became the Confederacy’s most famous admiral, best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • C. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
    Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was a 19th-century American statesman, jurist, and Confederate veteran who later served as a U.S. congressman, senator, cabinet member, and Supreme Court justice noted for his efforts at national reconciliation after the Civil War.
  • D. Andrew Jackson Donelson
    Andrew Jackson Donelson was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and nephew and namesake of President Andrew Jackson who served as U.S. minister to several European countries and ran for vice president in the 1856 election.
  • E. Joseph Twichell House
    The Joseph Twichell House is a historic residence in Hartford, Connecticut, associated with Reverend Joseph Twichell, a close friend of Mark Twain and a notable figure in the Nook Farm literary community.
  • 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: James Buchanan Johnston
Triple: [Harriet Lane, child, James Buchanan Johnston]
Generated description
James Buchanan Johnston was the adopted son and ward of Harriet Lane, the niece and de facto First Lady of U.S. President James Buchanan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Buchanan Johnston
Target entity description: James Buchanan Johnston was the adopted son and ward of Harriet Lane, the niece and de facto First Lady of U.S. President James Buchanan.
  • A. Zachary Taylor Davis
    Zachary Taylor Davis was an American architect best known for designing iconic early 20th-century baseball parks, including Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
  • B. Franklin Buchanan
    Franklin Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century American naval officer who became the Confederacy’s most famous admiral, best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • C. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
    Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was a 19th-century American statesman, jurist, and Confederate veteran who later served as a U.S. congressman, senator, cabinet member, and Supreme Court justice noted for his efforts at national reconciliation after the Civil War.
  • D. Andrew Jackson Donelson
    Andrew Jackson Donelson was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and nephew and namesake of President Andrew Jackson who served as U.S. minister to several European countries and ran for vice president in the 1856 election.
  • E. Joseph Twichell House
    The Joseph Twichell House is a historic residence in Hartford, Connecticut, associated with Reverend Joseph Twichell, a close friend of Mark Twain and a notable figure in the Nook Farm literary community.
  • 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_69ab4ac739188190a112f42a5a69c951 completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe047aa7c8190a0ed570c13f3a1a2 completed March 7, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0864dc2fc8190bfc946ae454611c6 completed March 10, 2026, 8:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0c36599788190b10bbd15d6c1fc6b completed March 11, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0c3ca9f18819086b22d0bad79ff68 completed March 11, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:03 p.m.