Triple

T367220
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Opticks E7987 entity
Predicate firstEditionPublisher P1760 FINISHED
Object Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith was a London-based bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
E47814 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: Samuel Smith | Statement: [Opticks, firstEditionPublisher, Samuel Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Smith
Context triple: [Opticks, firstEditionPublisher, Samuel Smith]
  • A. Samuel Smith
    Samuel Smith was an American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer and politician who led the defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814.
  • B. Samuel Gray
    Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
  • C. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • D. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Moses Taylor
    Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
  • 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: Samuel Smith
Triple: [Opticks, firstEditionPublisher, Samuel Smith]
Generated description
Samuel Smith was a London-based bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Smith
Target entity description: Samuel Smith was a London-based bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
  • A. Samuel Smith
    Samuel Smith was an American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer and politician who led the defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814.
  • B. Samuel Gray
    Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
  • C. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • D. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Moses Taylor
    Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
  • 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_69a2e7e880008190a6ad7e06e5d03007 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ebe92c7c8190b49af2b2b461eacc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3f4d8e8688190a35d50b99b85bb7f completed March 1, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3f73a9f588190a45d55f29cdbe65d completed March 1, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3f7ece1a081908c899a2b4ff12e89 completed March 1, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.