Triple

T37424
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boston Massacre E740 entity
Predicate hasKeyFigure P810 FINISHED
Object Captain Thomas Preston
Captain Thomas Preston was the British Army officer who commanded the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution.
E14788 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: Captain Thomas Preston | Statement: [Boston Massacre, hasKeyFigure, Captain Thomas Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Thomas Preston
Context triple: [Boston Massacre, hasKeyFigure, Captain Thomas Preston]
  • A. Thomas Gage
    Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Horatio Gates
    Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
  • D. Israel Putnam
    Israel Putnam was a prominent American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill and his role in the early Continental Army.
  • E. John Parker
    John Parker was an American colonial militia captain best known for leading the Lexington militia at the opening skirmishes of the American Revolutionary 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: Captain Thomas Preston
Triple: [Boston Massacre, hasKeyFigure, Captain Thomas Preston]
Generated description
Captain Thomas Preston was the British Army officer who commanded the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Thomas Preston
Target entity description: Captain Thomas Preston was the British Army officer who commanded the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution.
  • A. Thomas Gage
    Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Horatio Gates
    Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
  • D. Israel Putnam
    Israel Putnam was a prominent American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill and his role in the early Continental Army.
  • E. John Parker
    John Parker was an American colonial militia captain best known for leading the Lexington militia at the opening skirmishes of the American Revolutionary 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_69a247a8f6c08190bac804906d62ed5a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24acbb90881908c9f77e74034eb52 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2a3ced4f88190b6d2a6e83d484ab9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2a446fe40819094a061c3e7ecc7be completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2a51d391c819094949259097f7645 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.