Triple

T3192304
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Bancroft E66851 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Bancroft
Bancroft is an English-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, academia, and the arts.
 E335354 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: Bancroft | Statement: [George Bancroft, familyName, Bancroft]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bancroft
Context triple: [George Bancroft, familyName, Bancroft]
  • A. Fairbank
    Fairbank is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, known for its diverse community and urban character.
  • B. Cabell
    Cabell is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American politician Earle Cabell.
  • C. Carlyle
    Carlyle is a Scottish surname most famously associated with the 19th-century essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle.
  • D. McClintock
    McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
  • E. Bridgman
    Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
  • 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: Bancroft
Triple: [George Bancroft, familyName, Bancroft]
Generated description
Bancroft is an English-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, academia, and the arts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bancroft
Target entity description: Bancroft is an English-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, academia, and the arts.
  • A. Fairbank
    Fairbank is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, known for its diverse community and urban character.
  • B. Cabell
    Cabell is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American politician Earle Cabell.
  • C. Carlyle
    Carlyle is a Scottish surname most famously associated with the 19th-century essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle.
  • D. McClintock
    McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
  • E. Bridgman
    Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
  • 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_69ad8588ba18819086a10951c32ecb80 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada6e8e4b48190bc7c6443fc6da900 completed March 8, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24ba8a8b48190824dac45e37217cc completed March 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24d13ef908190b7b54d653e4d1ea4 completed March 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b24db9af3881909d3d89ad985356c6 completed March 12, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.