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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.