Triple

T4720779
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor E104759 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Abraham Schermerhorn
Abraham Schermerhorn was a wealthy New York merchant and prominent member of 19th-century New York society, best known as the father of socialite Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor.
E463067 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: Abraham Schermerhorn | Statement: [Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, father, Abraham Schermerhorn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abraham Schermerhorn
Context triple: [Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, father, Abraham Schermerhorn]
  • A. Samuel Barron
    Samuel Barron was a United States Navy officer who played a prominent command role in early 19th-century Mediterranean operations against the Barbary States.
  • B. Jonathan Hasbrouck
    Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
  • C. Robert Livingston the Elder
    Robert Livingston the Elder was a 17th-century Scottish-born colonial official and landowner who became a prominent New York patroon and patriarch of the influential Livingston family.
  • D. Arthur Tappan
    Arthur Tappan was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and philanthropist who became a leading abolitionist and key organizer in the early U.S. anti-slavery movement.
  • E. Robert R. Livingston
    Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
  • 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: Abraham Schermerhorn
Triple: [Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, father, Abraham Schermerhorn]
Generated description
Abraham Schermerhorn was a wealthy New York merchant and prominent member of 19th-century New York society, best known as the father of socialite Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abraham Schermerhorn
Target entity description: Abraham Schermerhorn was a wealthy New York merchant and prominent member of 19th-century New York society, best known as the father of socialite Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor.
  • A. Samuel Barron
    Samuel Barron was a United States Navy officer who played a prominent command role in early 19th-century Mediterranean operations against the Barbary States.
  • B. Jonathan Hasbrouck
    Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
  • C. Robert Livingston the Elder
    Robert Livingston the Elder was a 17th-century Scottish-born colonial official and landowner who became a prominent New York patroon and patriarch of the influential Livingston family.
  • D. Arthur Tappan
    Arthur Tappan was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and philanthropist who became a leading abolitionist and key organizer in the early U.S. anti-slavery movement.
  • E. Robert R. Livingston
    Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
  • 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_69bd642a1a808190afeefc9d65e6c539 completed March 20, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be108fe3b08190b3d306ca4b39860d completed March 21, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be1182fee48190a01bd167a4adb21b completed March 21, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be11e0922481909563dca0422f10d1 completed March 21, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:18 p.m.