Triple

T3469907
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brattleboro, Vermont E73229 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Brattle Jr.
William Brattle Jr. was a prominent colonial-era landowner and public figure in New England whose influence led to the Vermont town of Brattleboro being named in his honor.
 E360902 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: William Brattle Jr. | Statement: [Brattleboro, Vermont, namedAfter, William Brattle Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Brattle Jr.
Context triple: [Brattleboro, Vermont, namedAfter, William Brattle Jr.]
  • A. Samuel Sewall
    Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
  • B. Isaac Royall Jr.
    Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
  • C. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • D. Nathaniel Mather
    Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
  • E. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • 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: William Brattle Jr.
Triple: [Brattleboro, Vermont, namedAfter, William Brattle Jr.]
Generated description
William Brattle Jr. was a prominent colonial-era landowner and public figure in New England whose influence led to the Vermont town of Brattleboro being named in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Brattle Jr.
Target entity description: William Brattle Jr. was a prominent colonial-era landowner and public figure in New England whose influence led to the Vermont town of Brattleboro being named in his honor.
  • A. Samuel Sewall
    Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
  • B. Isaac Royall Jr.
    Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
  • C. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • D. Nathaniel Mather
    Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
  • E. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • 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_69ad85b2fed48190948c8765e453d270 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb392f6481908b6ad0457b8cf421 completed March 8, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3680dd2c48190a06c5c320a06a71a completed March 13, 2026, 1:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b36937ac4481909e1c90912b70e886 completed March 13, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b36997650c8190be5e9c78b5174187 completed March 13, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.