Triple

T3692829
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject General Grant National Memorial E78382 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object John Hemenway Duncan
John Hemenway Duncan was an American architect best known for designing prominent late-19th-century monuments and public structures in New York City.
E408939 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: John Hemenway Duncan | Statement: [General Grant National Memorial, architect, John Hemenway Duncan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Hemenway Duncan
Context triple: [General Grant National Memorial, architect, John Hemenway Duncan]
  • A. Malcolm Stuart Boylan
    Malcolm Stuart Boylan was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to genre films including the science fiction horror movie "Dr. Cyclops."
  • B. John Dandridge
    John Dandridge was a Virginia planter and colonial official best known as the father of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
  • C. William Howell Davis
    William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
  • D. Thomas Sampson
    Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
  • E. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • 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: John Hemenway Duncan
Triple: [General Grant National Memorial, architect, John Hemenway Duncan]
Generated description
John Hemenway Duncan was an American architect best known for designing prominent late-19th-century monuments and public structures in New York City.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Hemenway Duncan
Target entity description: John Hemenway Duncan was an American architect best known for designing prominent late-19th-century monuments and public structures in New York City.
  • A. Malcolm Stuart Boylan
    Malcolm Stuart Boylan was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to genre films including the science fiction horror movie "Dr. Cyclops."
  • B. John Dandridge
    John Dandridge was a Virginia planter and colonial official best known as the father of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
  • C. William Howell Davis
    William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
  • D. Thomas Sampson
    Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
  • E. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • 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_69ad85e285a081908f8cbfa9e2ed9b75 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc4e89f588190951371439a035850 completed March 8, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5560a42688190b30bce9b7af10db4 completed March 14, 2026, 12:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b55a0e8b5881909cc2de31c238ac80 completed March 14, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b55a6dcc408190b43ef56e5d81bc6c completed March 14, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:26 p.m.