Triple

T505418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James R. Osgood & Co. E10492 entity
Predicate notableAuthorPublished P7039 FINISHED
Object Bret Harte
Bret Harte was a 19th-century American author and poet best known for his short stories depicting life in the California Gold Rush.
E63169 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: Bret Harte | Statement: [James R. Osgood & Co., notableAuthorPublished, Bret Harte]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bret Harte
Context triple: [James R. Osgood & Co., notableAuthorPublished, Bret Harte]
  • A. Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
  • B. William Irving
    William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
  • C. Edwin Thomas Meredith
    Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • D. Jack London
    Jack London was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for adventure classics such as "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang."
  • E. Vachel Lindsay
    Vachel Lindsay was an influential American poet known for his rhythmic, chant-like verse and performances that helped pioneer modern spoken-word poetry in the early 20th 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: Bret Harte
Triple: [James R. Osgood & Co., notableAuthorPublished, Bret Harte]
Generated description
Bret Harte was a 19th-century American author and poet best known for his short stories depicting life in the California Gold Rush.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bret Harte
Target entity description: Bret Harte was a 19th-century American author and poet best known for his short stories depicting life in the California Gold Rush.
  • A. Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
  • B. William Irving
    William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
  • C. Edwin Thomas Meredith
    Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • D. Jack London
    Jack London was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for adventure classics such as "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang."
  • E. Vachel Lindsay
    Vachel Lindsay was an influential American poet known for his rhythmic, chant-like verse and performances that helped pioneer modern spoken-word poetry in the early 20th 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_69a2e848adf881908e5e04f7af030093 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f14b2acc8190818e8a53eac69c54 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4984eed2481909d16332d6034bedf completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4991506808190a96386726cd0212e completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a499dbfdf08190bedce53795790963 completed March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.