Triple

T41647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shirley, Massachusetts E821 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object James Shirley
James Shirley was a prominent English dramatist of the early 17th century, best known for his Caroline-era plays written just before the closing of the theatres in 1642.
E3300 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: James Shirley | Statement: [Shirley, Massachusetts, namedAfter, James Shirley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Shirley
Context triple: [Shirley, Massachusetts, namedAfter, James Shirley]
  • A. Horace Walpole
    Horace Walpole was an 18th-century English writer, art historian, and politician best known for pioneering the Gothic novel with "The Castle of Otranto" and for his extensive correspondence.
  • B. John Stafford Smith
    John Stafford Smith was an English composer best known for writing the melody that later became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
  • C. Howard Potter
    Howard Potter was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist who played a key role in the cultural life of New York City.
  • D. Cotton Mather
    Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
  • E. Lionel Hall
    Lionel Hall is an undergraduate dormitory building located within Harvard University's historic Harvard Yard.
  • 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: James Shirley
Triple: [Shirley, Massachusetts, namedAfter, James Shirley]
Generated description
James Shirley was a prominent English dramatist of the early 17th century, best known for his Caroline-era plays written just before the closing of the theatres in 1642.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Shirley
Target entity description: James Shirley was a prominent English dramatist of the early 17th century, best known for his Caroline-era plays written just before the closing of the theatres in 1642.
  • A. Horace Walpole
    Horace Walpole was an 18th-century English writer, art historian, and politician best known for pioneering the Gothic novel with "The Castle of Otranto" and for his extensive correspondence.
  • B. John Stafford Smith
    John Stafford Smith was an English composer best known for writing the melody that later became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
  • C. Howard Potter
    Howard Potter was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist who played a key role in the cultural life of New York City.
  • D. Cotton Mather
    Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
  • E. Lionel Hall
    Lionel Hall is an undergraduate dormitory building located within Harvard University's historic Harvard Yard.
  • 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_69a24ae0b7c4819092220568e8e52ad5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a24e63a9848190a0f38b23521804e6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a24efe21148190849accf51a2632f0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a24fca983c8190a62b8820645d2d2c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.