Triple

T49023
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cotton Mather E963 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Maria Cotton Mather
Maria Cotton Mather was the mother of the influential New England Puritan minister and writer Cotton Mather.
E16074 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: Maria Cotton Mather | Statement: [Cotton Mather, mother, Maria Cotton Mather]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maria Cotton Mather
Context triple: [Cotton Mather, mother, Maria Cotton Mather]
  • A. Cotton Mather
    Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
  • B. Elizabeth Howe
    Elizabeth Howe was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later recognized as one of its wrongfully accused victims.
  • C. Sarah Good
    Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
  • D. Francis Nurse
    Francis Nurse was a respected landowner and community leader in 17th-century Salem Village, best known for his involvement in the events surrounding the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Catharine Beecher
    Catharine Beecher was a 19th-century American educator and reformer known for promoting women’s education and domestic science, and for her influential writings on the role of women in society.
  • 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: Maria Cotton Mather
Triple: [Cotton Mather, mother, Maria Cotton Mather]
Generated description
Maria Cotton Mather was the mother of the influential New England Puritan minister and writer Cotton Mather.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maria Cotton Mather
Target entity description: Maria Cotton Mather was the mother of the influential New England Puritan minister and writer Cotton Mather.
  • A. Cotton Mather
    Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
  • B. Elizabeth Howe
    Elizabeth Howe was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later recognized as one of its wrongfully accused victims.
  • C. Sarah Good
    Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
  • D. Francis Nurse
    Francis Nurse was a respected landowner and community leader in 17th-century Salem Village, best known for his involvement in the events surrounding the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Catharine Beecher
    Catharine Beecher was a 19th-century American educator and reformer known for promoting women’s education and domestic science, and for her influential writings on the role of women in society.
  • 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_69a24af3e4a88190abe2f0c5a0e83ff3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b4b65e0881908e82b8e3a4bd3aa4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b4ff2c408190899d7570fc0745bd completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b55aa8e48190ab8f93e6230071e0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:47 a.m.