Triple

T422956
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Putnam E8143 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Putnam family faction in Salem Village
The Putnam family faction in Salem Village was a powerful and influential kinship group that played a leading role in instigating and sustaining the Salem witch trials of 1692.
E54163 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: Putnam family faction in Salem Village | Statement: [Thomas Putnam, associatedWith, Putnam family faction in Salem Village]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Putnam family faction in Salem Village
Context triple: [Thomas Putnam, associatedWith, Putnam family faction in Salem Village]
  • A. Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
    Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts) is the colonial New England community historically known as the epicenter of the 1692 Salem witch trials.
  • B. Salem witch trials
    The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
  • C. Half-Way Covenant controversy
    The Half-Way Covenant controversy was a 17th-century New England Puritan dispute over whether to allow the partial church membership of the unconverted children of visible saints, reflecting broader tensions about religious purity, community inclusion, and declining piety.
  • D. Salem Village meetinghouse
    The Salem Village meetinghouse was the central Puritan church and gathering place in Salem Village, Massachusetts, and a primary setting for the events of the 1692 Salem witch trials.
  • E. Awashonks
    Awashonks was a 17th-century female sachem of the Sakonnet band of the Wampanoag people in what is now southern New England.
  • 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: Putnam family faction in Salem Village
Triple: [Thomas Putnam, associatedWith, Putnam family faction in Salem Village]
Generated description
The Putnam family faction in Salem Village was a powerful and influential kinship group that played a leading role in instigating and sustaining the Salem witch trials of 1692.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Putnam family faction in Salem Village
Target entity description: The Putnam family faction in Salem Village was a powerful and influential kinship group that played a leading role in instigating and sustaining the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • A. Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
    Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts) is the colonial New England community historically known as the epicenter of the 1692 Salem witch trials.
  • B. Salem witch trials
    The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
  • C. Half-Way Covenant controversy
    The Half-Way Covenant controversy was a 17th-century New England Puritan dispute over whether to allow the partial church membership of the unconverted children of visible saints, reflecting broader tensions about religious purity, community inclusion, and declining piety.
  • D. Salem Village meetinghouse
    The Salem Village meetinghouse was the central Puritan church and gathering place in Salem Village, Massachusetts, and a primary setting for the events of the 1692 Salem witch trials.
  • E. Awashonks
    Awashonks was a 17th-century female sachem of the Sakonnet band of the Wampanoag people in what is now southern New England.
  • 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_69a2eec200648190bcb9f1b98c8e9cdf completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a42f64cccc8190afae9aa50097670a completed March 1, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a42fe4b0448190a8077873001b5a21 completed March 1, 2026, 12:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a43057a4688190829bfbe668d3889b completed March 1, 2026, 12:25 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.