Triple

T5011678
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sarah Hawkred E112635 entity
Predicate spouseOf P13 FINISHED
Object New England clergyman John Cotton
New England clergyman John Cotton was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian who played a leading role in the religious and civic life of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
 E486365 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: New England clergyman John Cotton | Statement: [Sarah Hawkred, spouseOf, New England clergyman John Cotton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: New England clergyman John Cotton
Context triple: [Sarah Hawkred, spouseOf, New England clergyman John Cotton]
  • A. John Williams (Puritan minister)
    John Williams was a Puritan minister from Deerfield, Massachusetts, best known for his captivity narrative recounting his abduction during the 1704 raid on Deerfield in Queen Anne’s War.
  • B. John Eliot
    John Eliot was a 17th-century Puritan missionary best known for translating the Bible into the Massachusett (Algonquian) language for Indigenous peoples in New England.
  • C. Stephen Sewall
    Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Eleazar Mather
    Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
  • 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: New England clergyman John Cotton
Triple: [Sarah Hawkred, spouseOf, New England clergyman John Cotton]
Generated description
New England clergyman John Cotton was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian who played a leading role in the religious and civic life of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: New England clergyman John Cotton
Target entity description: New England clergyman John Cotton was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian who played a leading role in the religious and civic life of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • A. John Williams (Puritan minister)
    John Williams was a Puritan minister from Deerfield, Massachusetts, best known for his captivity narrative recounting his abduction during the 1704 raid on Deerfield in Queen Anne’s War.
  • B. John Eliot
    John Eliot was a 17th-century Puritan missionary best known for translating the Bible into the Massachusett (Algonquian) language for Indigenous peoples in New England.
  • C. Stephen Sewall
    Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Eleazar Mather
    Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
  • 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_69bd4434acb8819086679dbeccc2fe54 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd730d70ac8190a1818d628e95ab04 completed March 20, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be926e5ef481909df3a4b9d793300a completed March 21, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be93efbf548190b2967a41162f2e4e completed March 21, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be945978a48190821103cdd306075d completed March 21, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:35 p.m.