Triple

T4540832
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John W. Sterling E107525 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object John William Sterling
John William Sterling was an American lawyer and major benefactor of Yale University, best known for his substantial philanthropic contributions that funded several of the university’s landmark buildings and programs.
E451499 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: John William Sterling | Statement: [John W. Sterling, fullName, John William Sterling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John William Sterling
Context triple: [John W. Sterling, fullName, John William Sterling]
  • A. Richard Harrison
    Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
  • B. Richard Harrison
    Richard Harrison was an early husband of Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, who later became known as the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
  • C. John Pope
    John Pope was a Union major general in the American Civil War, best known for his controversial leadership in the Eastern Theater and later command on the Western frontier.
  • D. Charles Dunham
    Charles Dunham is a fictional character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," involved in the social and romantic entanglements that drive the story’s plot.
  • E. Ross Marquand
    Ross Marquand is an American actor and impressionist best known for his roles on "The Walking Dead" and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • 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: John William Sterling
Triple: [John W. Sterling, fullName, John William Sterling]
Generated description
John William Sterling was an American lawyer and major benefactor of Yale University, best known for his substantial philanthropic contributions that funded several of the university’s landmark buildings and programs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John William Sterling
Target entity description: John William Sterling was an American lawyer and major benefactor of Yale University, best known for his substantial philanthropic contributions that funded several of the university’s landmark buildings and programs.
  • A. Richard Harrison
    Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
  • B. Richard Harrison
    Richard Harrison was an early husband of Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, who later became known as the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
  • C. John Pope
    John Pope was a Union major general in the American Civil War, best known for his controversial leadership in the Eastern Theater and later command on the Western frontier.
  • D. Charles Dunham
    Charles Dunham is a fictional character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," involved in the social and romantic entanglements that drive the story’s plot.
  • E. Ross Marquand
    Ross Marquand is an American actor and impressionist best known for his roles on "The Walking Dead" and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • 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_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_69bdb91e51988190aee638cc21c6cf54 completed March 20, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdbdb3b5908190885e30d442a4cdd3 completed March 20, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdbe1bcd8c819094adea59c91c6f5b completed March 20, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:04 p.m.