Triple

T4716553
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Amesbury, Massachusetts E104652 entity
Predicate hasNotablePerson P304 FINISHED
Object Harriet Prescott Spofford
Harriet Prescott Spofford was a 19th-century American writer best known for her gothic and romantic short stories, poetry, and novels that appeared in prominent literary magazines of her time.
E478815 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: Harriet Prescott Spofford | Statement: [Amesbury, Massachusetts, hasNotablePerson, Harriet Prescott Spofford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harriet Prescott Spofford
Context triple: [Amesbury, Massachusetts, hasNotablePerson, Harriet Prescott Spofford]
  • A. Harriet Lothrop
    Harriet Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" children's book series and as the preserver of The Wayside historic home in Concord, Massachusetts.
  • B. Harriet Malvina Howe
    Harriet Malvina Howe was the wife of Henry Wilson, the 18th vice president of the United States, and a 19th-century American political spouse.
  • C. Louisa E. Masterson
    Louisa E. Masterson was a family member of famed Old West lawman and gambler Bat Masterson, known primarily through her relation to him.
  • D. Harriet Crocker Alexander
    Harriet Crocker Alexander was an American socialite and philanthropist from the prominent Crocker railroad family.
  • E. Elizabeth Wendell
    Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
  • 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: Harriet Prescott Spofford
Triple: [Amesbury, Massachusetts, hasNotablePerson, Harriet Prescott Spofford]
Generated description
Harriet Prescott Spofford was a 19th-century American writer best known for her gothic and romantic short stories, poetry, and novels that appeared in prominent literary magazines of her time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harriet Prescott Spofford
Target entity description: Harriet Prescott Spofford was a 19th-century American writer best known for her gothic and romantic short stories, poetry, and novels that appeared in prominent literary magazines of her time.
  • A. Harriet Lothrop
    Harriet Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" children's book series and as the preserver of The Wayside historic home in Concord, Massachusetts.
  • B. Harriet Malvina Howe
    Harriet Malvina Howe was the wife of Henry Wilson, the 18th vice president of the United States, and a 19th-century American political spouse.
  • C. Louisa E. Masterson
    Louisa E. Masterson was a family member of famed Old West lawman and gambler Bat Masterson, known primarily through her relation to him.
  • D. Harriet Crocker Alexander
    Harriet Crocker Alexander was an American socialite and philanthropist from the prominent Crocker railroad family.
  • E. Elizabeth Wendell
    Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
  • 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_69bd43ec4a348190bc41afae43375e71 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd640a32ec8190850146957885c3cf completed March 20, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be6f9444548190b7457eabbbd9fb25 completed March 21, 2026, 10:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be715b553481908d3c0cfc8ed0f9ac completed March 21, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be71a8fa3881909940c9d227266baf completed March 21, 2026, 10:23 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:18 p.m.