Triple
T4460946
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Shirley |
E98251
|
entity |
| Predicate | placeOfDeath |
P21
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay |
E191313
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay | Statement: [William Shirley, placeOfDeath, Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay Context triple: [William Shirley, placeOfDeath, Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay]
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A.
Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
chosen
Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the early Puritan settlements near Boston that became an important town in the early governance and religious life of colonial New England.
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B.
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, established in 1630 in what is now part of Boston, Massachusetts.
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C.
Freetown, Massachusetts
Freetown, Massachusetts is a small historic town in Bristol County known for its rural character, forests, and the reputedly haunted Freetown-Fall River State Forest.
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D.
Roxbury
Roxbury is one of the earliest English-settled neighborhoods of present-day Boston, historically significant as a colonial town in what became Massachusetts.
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E.
Roxbury
Roxbury is a small town located in Dane County, Wisconsin, known for its rural character and proximity to the Madison metropolitan area.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69b3454a7c608190944f5455c8031d73 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b35673337c8190b923159791ec27e3 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 12:12 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b6511439c08190965afc1107ae24f4 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 6:26 a.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:34 p.m.