Triple
T4540426
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Seaborn Cotton |
E107513
|
entity |
| Predicate | child |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Cotton (Hampton minister) |
E19661
|
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: John Cotton (Hampton minister) | Statement: [Seaborn Cotton, child, John Cotton (Hampton minister)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Cotton (Hampton minister) Context triple: [Seaborn Cotton, child, John Cotton (Hampton minister)]
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A.
John Cotton
chosen
John Cotton was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian in colonial New England, influential in shaping early American religious thought.
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B.
Richard Mather
Richard Mather was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and early New England clergyman influential in shaping colonial religious life.
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C.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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D.
John Williams (Puritan minister)
John Williams was a Puritan minister from Deerfield, Massachusetts, best known for his captivity narrative recounting his abduction during the 1704 raid on Deerfield in Queen Anne’s War.
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E.
Isaac Royall Jr.
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
- 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_69bd43f922788190b7edfa294e39b178 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd57bb5c0c819092ebb2dd3310f5f8 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bdfa1681708190ae4dc66e8734e5a1 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 1:53 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:04 p.m.