Triple
T49171
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Salem Village |
E966
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableResident |
P1092
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Putnam |
E8143
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas Putnam | Statement: [Salem Village, notableResident, Thomas Putnam]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Putnam Context triple: [Salem Village, notableResident, Thomas Putnam]
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A.
Thomas Putnam
chosen
Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
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B.
Samuel Parris
Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister of Salem Village whose accusations and sermons helped ignite and intensify the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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C.
Giles Corey
Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Reverend John Hale
Reverend John Hale is a devout, intellectually confident minister and witchcraft expert whose moral transformation and growing doubt about the Salem trials form a central arc in Arthur Miller’s play *The Crucible*.
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E.
John Proctor
John Proctor was a 17th-century Salem farmer who became one of the most famous individuals executed after openly challenging the legitimacy of the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a2f0b0d5f481909987c4d937c7157a |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:47 a.m.