Triple

T2922775
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Grove Street Cemetery E78769 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman was a pioneering American chemist and geologist, one of Yale College’s first science professors, and a key figure in the early development of scientific education in the United States.
E312490 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: Benjamin Silliman | Statement: [Grove Street Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Benjamin Silliman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Silliman
Context triple: [Grove Street Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Benjamin Silliman]
  • A. Josiah Whitney
    Josiah Whitney was a prominent 19th-century American geologist and Harvard professor who served as the state geologist of California and became a leading figure in the geological exploration of the American West.
  • B. Morris K. Jesup
    Morris K. Jesup was a prominent American banker and philanthropist known for his major contributions to science, education, and cultural institutions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Joseph Ellicott
    Joseph Ellicott was an early 19th-century American surveyor and land agent best known for laying out and helping to develop the city of Buffalo, New York.
  • D. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • E. Amos G. Throop
    Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
  • 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: Benjamin Silliman
Triple: [Grove Street Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Benjamin Silliman]
Generated description
Benjamin Silliman was a pioneering American chemist and geologist, one of Yale College’s first science professors, and a key figure in the early development of scientific education in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Silliman
Target entity description: Benjamin Silliman was a pioneering American chemist and geologist, one of Yale College’s first science professors, and a key figure in the early development of scientific education in the United States.
  • A. Josiah Whitney
    Josiah Whitney was a prominent 19th-century American geologist and Harvard professor who served as the state geologist of California and became a leading figure in the geological exploration of the American West.
  • B. Morris K. Jesup
    Morris K. Jesup was a prominent American banker and philanthropist known for his major contributions to science, education, and cultural institutions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Joseph Ellicott
    Joseph Ellicott was an early 19th-century American surveyor and land agent best known for laying out and helping to develop the city of Buffalo, New York.
  • D. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • E. Amos G. Throop
    Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
  • 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_69ad8b0c2ad081909ff87050ae542bb9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad97bd65ac81909a05ea2bade113d0 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b08664fe308190889e855821a32576 completed March 10, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0c3b6deb48190acb90776d9305e02 completed March 11, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0c41fb0c48190b94cd269c9789c6b completed March 11, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:54 p.m.