Triple
T347638
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
E6974
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entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
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FINISHED |
| Object |
United States Custom House in Salem
The United States Custom House in Salem is a historic federal building and former customs office in Salem, Massachusetts, best known today for its association with author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who worked there and drew on it for the introduction to "The Scarlet Letter."
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E44117
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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: United States Custom House in Salem | Statement: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, employer, United States Custom House in Salem]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Custom House in Salem Context triple: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, employer, United States Custom House in Salem]
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A.
Boston City Hall
Boston City Hall is a prominent example of Brutalist civic architecture in downtown Boston that houses the city’s municipal government offices and council chambers.
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B.
Faneuil Hall
Faneuil Hall is a historic marketplace and meeting hall in downtown Boston that played a key role as a gathering place for American colonists during the Revolutionary era.
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C.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Salem Maritime National Historic Site is a historic waterfront area in Salem, Massachusetts, preserving 18th- and 19th-century wharves, buildings, and artifacts related to the city’s prominent role in early American maritime trade.
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D.
Pioneer Courthouse
Pioneer Courthouse is a historic 19th-century federal courthouse in downtown Portland, Oregon, and one of the oldest functioning federal courthouses in the western United States.
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E.
Newton City Hall
Newton City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Newton, Massachusetts.
- 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: United States Custom House in Salem Triple: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, employer, United States Custom House in Salem]
Generated description
The United States Custom House in Salem is a historic federal building and former customs office in Salem, Massachusetts, best known today for its association with author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who worked there and drew on it for the introduction to "The Scarlet Letter."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Custom House in Salem Target entity description: The United States Custom House in Salem is a historic federal building and former customs office in Salem, Massachusetts, best known today for its association with author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who worked there and drew on it for the introduction to "The Scarlet Letter."
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A.
Boston City Hall
Boston City Hall is a prominent example of Brutalist civic architecture in downtown Boston that houses the city’s municipal government offices and council chambers.
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B.
Faneuil Hall
Faneuil Hall is a historic marketplace and meeting hall in downtown Boston that played a key role as a gathering place for American colonists during the Revolutionary era.
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C.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Salem Maritime National Historic Site is a historic waterfront area in Salem, Massachusetts, preserving 18th- and 19th-century wharves, buildings, and artifacts related to the city’s prominent role in early American maritime trade.
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D.
Pioneer Courthouse
Pioneer Courthouse is a historic 19th-century federal courthouse in downtown Portland, Oregon, and one of the oldest functioning federal courthouses in the western United States.
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E.
Newton City Hall
Newton City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Newton, Massachusetts.
- 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_69a2e7951ba08190960e90823b5078f3 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2eb1c1c908190b3a01de893207ed1 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:18 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3d7ecd23881909e10bb84f266d2d1 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 6:08 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a3d880d8348190964bcd283550aba8 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 6:11 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a3d94e1aac819089d6b5dc44eeed11 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 6:14 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.