Triple

T4607997
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Peter Zenger E100483 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Zenger trial
The Zenger trial was a landmark 1735 colonial American court case that helped establish the principle of freedom of the press by acquitting printer John Peter Zenger of libel for criticizing the royal governor.
E456443 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: Zenger trial | Statement: [John Peter Zenger, knownFor, Zenger trial]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zenger trial
Context triple: [John Peter Zenger, knownFor, Zenger trial]
  • A. Trial of the Seventeen
    Trial of the Seventeen is a fantasy novel in the Spellmonger series by Terry Mancour, continuing the epic tale of mage Minalan and his allies as they confront escalating magical and political threats.
  • B. Paul v. Virginia
    Paul v. Virginia is an 1869 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held corporations are not “citizens” under the Constitution’s Privileges and Immunities Clause, allowing states to regulate foreign insurance companies.
  • C. The Trial of Sir Henry Vane, Kt.
    "The Trial of Sir Henry Vane, Kt." is a historical account and political text detailing the prosecution and defense of the English statesman and republican Henry Vane the Younger following the Restoration.
  • D. Trial of Queen Caroline
    The Trial of Queen Caroline was a highly publicized 1820 British parliamentary proceeding attempting to dissolve King George IV’s marriage on grounds of alleged adultery, which became a major political and constitutional crisis.
  • E. Trial of the Twenty-One
    The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
  • 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: Zenger trial
Triple: [John Peter Zenger, knownFor, Zenger trial]
Generated description
The Zenger trial was a landmark 1735 colonial American court case that helped establish the principle of freedom of the press by acquitting printer John Peter Zenger of libel for criticizing the royal governor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zenger trial
Target entity description: The Zenger trial was a landmark 1735 colonial American court case that helped establish the principle of freedom of the press by acquitting printer John Peter Zenger of libel for criticizing the royal governor.
  • A. Trial of the Seventeen
    Trial of the Seventeen is a fantasy novel in the Spellmonger series by Terry Mancour, continuing the epic tale of mage Minalan and his allies as they confront escalating magical and political threats.
  • B. Paul v. Virginia
    Paul v. Virginia is an 1869 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held corporations are not “citizens” under the Constitution’s Privileges and Immunities Clause, allowing states to regulate foreign insurance companies.
  • C. The Trial of Sir Henry Vane, Kt.
    "The Trial of Sir Henry Vane, Kt." is a historical account and political text detailing the prosecution and defense of the English statesman and republican Henry Vane the Younger following the Restoration.
  • D. Trial of Queen Caroline
    The Trial of Queen Caroline was a highly publicized 1820 British parliamentary proceeding attempting to dissolve King George IV’s marriage on grounds of alleged adultery, which became a major political and constitutional crisis.
  • E. Trial of the Twenty-One
    The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
  • 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_69bd43cce1e08190a07d53af6a9b6c24 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd599debdc81909d11d0e871c666bb completed March 20, 2026, 2:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfa789cdc8190add02a5970f9a0b6 completed March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb385ccc8190ab8de82c6df645cf completed March 21, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfbcdb6d881909feb3a6be81a567f completed March 21, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.