Triple

T3098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Barton Rogers E58 entity
Predicate middleName P143 FINISHED
Object Barton
Barton is the middle name of William Barton Rogers, the American scientist and educator who founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
 E5459 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: Barton | Statement: [William Barton Rogers, middleName, Barton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Barton
Context triple: [William Barton Rogers, middleName, Barton]
  • A. Lawrence
    Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
  • B. Valley Wells
    Valley Wells is a small locality situated within California’s Mojave Desert, known primarily as a remote desert community along major regional travel routes.
  • C. Douglas
    Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Kanesville
    Kanesville was the mid-19th-century Mormon settlement that later became the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
  • E. Bourne Bridge
    The Bourne Bridge is a major highway bridge in Massachusetts that carries traffic over the Cape Cod Canal, serving as one of the primary gateways between mainland Massachusetts and Cape Cod.
  • 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: Barton
Triple: [William Barton Rogers, middleName, Barton]
Generated description
Barton is the middle name of William Barton Rogers, the American scientist and educator who founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Barton
Target entity description: Barton is the middle name of William Barton Rogers, the American scientist and educator who founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
  • A. Lawrence
    Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
  • B. Valley Wells
    Valley Wells is a small locality situated within California’s Mojave Desert, known primarily as a remote desert community along major regional travel routes.
  • C. Douglas
    Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Kanesville
    Kanesville was the mid-19th-century Mormon settlement that later became the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
  • E. Bourne Bridge
    The Bourne Bridge is a major highway bridge in Massachusetts that carries traffic over the Cape Cod Canal, serving as one of the primary gateways between mainland Massachusetts and Cape Cod.
  • 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_69a238d6b47881909e68288aed2fd858 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2399c646c8190b4977ed56b8835a8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a25528aa18819088213f16547924ca completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2569c52808190acb928405528d174 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2575b51188190b8fce6ea4e424ce1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 12:40 a.m.