Triple

T488697
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American University E9937 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object John Fletcher Hurst
John Fletcher Hurst was a 19th-century American Methodist bishop, theologian, and educator who played a key role in advancing higher education and religious scholarship in the United States.
E156787 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 Fletcher Hurst | Statement: [American University, founder, John Fletcher Hurst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Fletcher Hurst
Context triple: [American University, founder, John Fletcher Hurst]
  • A. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • B. Thomas Parkhurst
    Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
  • C. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • D. Robert Hepburn
    Robert Hepburn was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
  • E. Edward Gurney
    Edward Gurney was a Republican U.S. Senator from Florida in the early 1970s, known for his prominent role on the Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal.
  • 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 Fletcher Hurst
Triple: [American University, founder, John Fletcher Hurst]
Generated description
John Fletcher Hurst was a 19th-century American Methodist bishop, theologian, and educator who played a key role in advancing higher education and religious scholarship in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Fletcher Hurst
Target entity description: John Fletcher Hurst was a 19th-century American Methodist bishop, theologian, and educator who played a key role in advancing higher education and religious scholarship in the United States.
  • A. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • B. Thomas Parkhurst
    Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
  • C. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • D. Robert Hepburn
    Robert Hepburn was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
  • E. Edward Gurney
    Edward Gurney was a Republican U.S. Senator from Florida in the early 1970s, known for his prominent role on the Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal.
  • 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_69a2e802e2908190ab17c9479e0b6412 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f0df764481909811d9483dfbc4aa completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acce4b94d08190b7747b0b6d61e3e1 completed March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69accf3931bc81908e38755e2d024270 completed March 8, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69accfb8acfc8190bba379d8bb114c29 completed March 8, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.