Triple

T5258148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boston art community E118752 entity
Predicate associatedWithArtist P5936 FINISHED
Object William McGregor Paxton
William McGregor Paxton was an American painter of the Boston School, renowned for his refined portraits and interior scenes characterized by meticulous detail and luminous, carefully controlled light.
E514432 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 McGregor Paxton | Statement: [Boston art community, associatedWithArtist, William McGregor Paxton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McGregor Paxton
Context triple: [Boston art community, associatedWithArtist, William McGregor Paxton]
  • A. William Paxton
    William Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," and "Titanic," as well as the HBO series "Big Love."
  • B. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • C. Thomas Richard Paxton
    Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer-songwriter and prominent figure of the 1960s folk revival, known for his socially conscious and narrative-driven songs.
  • D. George Davenport
    George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
  • E. William Nigh
    William Nigh was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era through the 1940s, known for his work on low-budget genre films.
  • 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 McGregor Paxton
Triple: [Boston art community, associatedWithArtist, William McGregor Paxton]
Generated description
William McGregor Paxton was an American painter of the Boston School, renowned for his refined portraits and interior scenes characterized by meticulous detail and luminous, carefully controlled light.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McGregor Paxton
Target entity description: William McGregor Paxton was an American painter of the Boston School, renowned for his refined portraits and interior scenes characterized by meticulous detail and luminous, carefully controlled light.
  • A. William Paxton
    William Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," and "Titanic," as well as the HBO series "Big Love."
  • B. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • C. Thomas Richard Paxton
    Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer-songwriter and prominent figure of the 1960s folk revival, known for his socially conscious and narrative-driven songs.
  • D. George Davenport
    George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
  • E. William Nigh
    William Nigh was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era through the 1940s, known for his work on low-budget genre films.
  • 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_69bd446978108190bb5f9c5c23d93f88 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7ba791c08190a18176feae8d1475 completed March 20, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf21ab5bc481909a8f2f5d1aaeb111 completed March 21, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf23fb1ce48190877eb58730d82b62 completed March 21, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf245092b48190904e1a7b1e5923af completed March 21, 2026, 11:05 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:50 p.m.