Triple

T3606798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Johnston, Rhode Island E76391 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Augustus Johnston
Augustus Johnston was a colonial-era official and attorney in Rhode Island, notably serving as the colony’s attorney general around the time of the American Revolution.
E442309 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: Augustus Johnston | Statement: [Johnston, Rhode Island, namedAfter, Augustus Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustus Johnston
Context triple: [Johnston, Rhode Island, namedAfter, Augustus Johnston]
  • A. George Travis
    George Travis is a veteran concert and theater producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, including work on the acclaimed stage production "Springsteen on Broadway."
  • B. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • C. Alexander P. Stewart
    Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
  • D. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • E. James Whittaker
    James Whittaker was an early and influential leader of the Shaker religious movement in America, known for helping to organize and spread the sect’s communal, celibate, and egalitarian way of life.
  • 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: Augustus Johnston
Triple: [Johnston, Rhode Island, namedAfter, Augustus Johnston]
Generated description
Augustus Johnston was a colonial-era official and attorney in Rhode Island, notably serving as the colony’s attorney general around the time of the American Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustus Johnston
Target entity description: Augustus Johnston was a colonial-era official and attorney in Rhode Island, notably serving as the colony’s attorney general around the time of the American Revolution.
  • A. George Travis
    George Travis is a veteran concert and theater producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, including work on the acclaimed stage production "Springsteen on Broadway."
  • B. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • C. Alexander P. Stewart
    Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
  • D. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • E. James Whittaker
    James Whittaker was an early and influential leader of the Shaker religious movement in America, known for helping to organize and spread the sect’s communal, celibate, and egalitarian way of life.
  • 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_69ad85da0ba481908b3b48c69efe2b98 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc1e33cfc8190afc716b19480fbce completed March 8, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6279969388190a808a3c5995df2c5 completed March 15, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b62b5adf64819093e2bd50e49d5fda completed March 15, 2026, 3:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b62c3defe08190a3fc7eb840684f1d completed March 15, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.