Triple

T48965
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Court of Oyer and Terminer E962 entity
Predicate presidingOfficer P377 FINISHED
Object William Stoughton
William Stoughton was a colonial New England magistrate and politician best known for serving as chief justice during the Salem witch trials.
E14821 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: William Stoughton | Statement: [Court of Oyer and Terminer, presidingOfficer, William Stoughton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Stoughton
Context triple: [Court of Oyer and Terminer, presidingOfficer, William Stoughton]
  • A. Thomas Dudley
    Thomas Dudley was a prominent early Puritan leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 17th-century New England.
  • B. John Winthrop
    John Winthrop was a 17th-century English Puritan leader and governor who played a central role in establishing and governing the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a model “city upon a hill.”
  • C. Increase Mather
    Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Governor William Phips
    Governor William Phips was the colonial governor of Massachusetts best known for overseeing and ultimately halting the Salem witch trials in 1692.
  • E. John Endecott
    John Endecott was an early English colonial leader and Puritan magistrate who served multiple terms as a strict and influential governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century.
  • 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: William Stoughton
Triple: [Court of Oyer and Terminer, presidingOfficer, William Stoughton]
Generated description
William Stoughton was a colonial New England magistrate and politician best known for serving as chief justice during the Salem witch trials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Stoughton
Target entity description: William Stoughton was a colonial New England magistrate and politician best known for serving as chief justice during the Salem witch trials.
  • A. Thomas Dudley
    Thomas Dudley was a prominent early Puritan leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 17th-century New England.
  • B. John Winthrop
    John Winthrop was a 17th-century English Puritan leader and governor who played a central role in establishing and governing the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a model “city upon a hill.”
  • C. Increase Mather
    Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Governor William Phips
    Governor William Phips was the colonial governor of Massachusetts best known for overseeing and ultimately halting the Salem witch trials in 1692.
  • E. John Endecott
    John Endecott was an early English colonial leader and Puritan magistrate who served multiple terms as a strict and influential governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century.
  • 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_69a2480baefc81909951b14058479aa2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24ec333fc8190b66776b947e0bdbd completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2a3ced4f88190b6d2a6e83d484ab9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2a446fe40819094a061c3e7ecc7be completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2a51d391c819094949259097f7645 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:47 a.m.