Triple

T422313
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benjamin A. Smith II E8129 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Benjamin A. Smith III
Benjamin A. Smith III is an individual known primarily as the son and namesake of Benjamin A. Smith II.
 E180368 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: Benjamin A. Smith III | Statement: [Benjamin A. Smith II, hasChild, Benjamin A. Smith III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin A. Smith III
Context triple: [Benjamin A. Smith II, hasChild, Benjamin A. Smith III]
  • A. Benjamin A. Smith II
    Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
  • B. Jonathan M. Daniels
    Jonathan M. Daniels was a civil rights activist and Episcopal seminarian who was killed in 1965 while protecting a young Black girl during the struggle for racial equality in Alabama.
  • C. Mark D. Bailey
    Mark D. Bailey is an American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • D. William C. Reynolds
    William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
  • E. Daniel S. Dickinson
    Daniel S. Dickinson was a 19th-century American lawyer, U.S. senator from New York, and prominent Democratic politician known for his staunch Unionist stance during the Civil War 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: Benjamin A. Smith III
Triple: [Benjamin A. Smith II, hasChild, Benjamin A. Smith III]
Generated description
Benjamin A. Smith III is an individual known primarily as the son and namesake of Benjamin A. Smith II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin A. Smith III
Target entity description: Benjamin A. Smith III is an individual known primarily as the son and namesake of Benjamin A. Smith II.
  • A. Benjamin A. Smith II
    Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
  • B. Jonathan M. Daniels
    Jonathan M. Daniels was a civil rights activist and Episcopal seminarian who was killed in 1965 while protecting a young Black girl during the struggle for racial equality in Alabama.
  • C. Mark D. Bailey
    Mark D. Bailey is an American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • D. William C. Reynolds
    William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
  • E. Daniel S. Dickinson
    Daniel S. Dickinson was a 19th-century American lawyer, U.S. senator from New York, and prominent Democratic politician known for his staunch Unionist stance during the Civil War 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_69a2e7f1d1bc81909cf2dc9754a3c334 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eec0e9dc81908c08b209ce5278ef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad4678de4481908d6a0e6325e0a0e0 completed March 8, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad4774fc5c8190952196df8f618bc9 completed March 8, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad47a5f5048190bc2201911e47021d completed March 8, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.