Triple

T403464
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Princeton Theological Seminary E9333 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object J. Gresham Machen
J. Gresham Machen was an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar, best known for his defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism and for founding Westminster Theological Seminary.
E53198 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: J. Gresham Machen | Statement: [Princeton Theological Seminary, hasNotableAlumnus, J. Gresham Machen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Gresham Machen
Context triple: [Princeton Theological Seminary, hasNotableAlumnus, J. Gresham Machen]
  • A. Carl F. H. Henry
    Carl F. H. Henry was a prominent 20th-century American evangelical theologian and author who helped shape modern evangelical thought and was a founding figure of Christianity Today magazine.
  • B. Charles Hodge
    Charles Hodge was a prominent 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and long-time Princeton professor known for his influential Reformed theology and the multi-volume "Systematic Theology."
  • C. Francis Schaeffer
    Francis Schaeffer was a prominent 20th-century evangelical theologian, philosopher, and apologist known for his influential writings on Christianity and Western culture and for founding the L'Abri community in Switzerland.
  • D. B. B. Warfield
    B. B. Warfield was an influential American Presbyterian theologian and professor renowned for his rigorous defense of biblical inerrancy and Reformed theology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Robert Gordon Sproul
    Robert Gordon Sproul was a prominent American educator who served as the long-time president of the University of California system in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: J. Gresham Machen
Triple: [Princeton Theological Seminary, hasNotableAlumnus, J. Gresham Machen]
Generated description
J. Gresham Machen was an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar, best known for his defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism and for founding Westminster Theological Seminary.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Gresham Machen
Target entity description: J. Gresham Machen was an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar, best known for his defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism and for founding Westminster Theological Seminary.
  • A. Carl F. H. Henry
    Carl F. H. Henry was a prominent 20th-century American evangelical theologian and author who helped shape modern evangelical thought and was a founding figure of Christianity Today magazine.
  • B. Charles Hodge
    Charles Hodge was a prominent 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and long-time Princeton professor known for his influential Reformed theology and the multi-volume "Systematic Theology."
  • C. Francis Schaeffer
    Francis Schaeffer was a prominent 20th-century evangelical theologian, philosopher, and apologist known for his influential writings on Christianity and Western culture and for founding the L'Abri community in Switzerland.
  • D. B. B. Warfield
    B. B. Warfield was an influential American Presbyterian theologian and professor renowned for his rigorous defense of biblical inerrancy and Reformed theology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Robert Gordon Sproul
    Robert Gordon Sproul was a prominent American educator who served as the long-time president of the University of California system in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69a2e8004cb88190b92ed1add6abf41a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eca226fc81909d6ccc38a637daa6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4254075388190af8fd09d037f427c completed March 1, 2026, 11:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4261531ac8190aa879bf38bfd9371 completed March 1, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4267b09b4819085db5e073cc19360 completed March 1, 2026, 11:43 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.