Triple

T5286651
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Two Years Before the Mast (film) E119634 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Richard Henry Dana Jr. was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and author best known for his memoir "Two Years Before the Mast," which vividly recounts his experiences as a common sailor.
 E509038 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: Richard Henry Dana Jr. | Statement: [Two Years Before the Mast (film), basedOnAuthor, Richard Henry Dana Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Context triple: [Two Years Before the Mast (film), basedOnAuthor, Richard Henry Dana Jr.]
  • A. Charles Elliot
    Charles Elliot was a British naval officer and diplomat who played a pivotal role in the early stages of the First Opium War between Britain and Qing China.
  • B. Nathaniel Curtis
    Nathaniel Curtis is a British actor best known for his role in the acclaimed television drama "It's a Sin."
  • C. Nathaniel Curtis
    Nathaniel Curtis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the classic MGM musical film "The Harvey Girls."
  • D. Henry Miller Shreve
    Henry Miller Shreve was a 19th-century American steamboat captain and engineer renowned for pioneering river navigation improvements on the Mississippi and Red Rivers.
  • E. Samuel Ballard
    Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
  • 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: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Triple: [Two Years Before the Mast (film), basedOnAuthor, Richard Henry Dana Jr.]
Generated description
Richard Henry Dana Jr. was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and author best known for his memoir "Two Years Before the Mast," which vividly recounts his experiences as a common sailor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Target entity description: Richard Henry Dana Jr. was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and author best known for his memoir "Two Years Before the Mast," which vividly recounts his experiences as a common sailor.
  • A. Charles Elliot
    Charles Elliot was a British naval officer and diplomat who played a pivotal role in the early stages of the First Opium War between Britain and Qing China.
  • B. Nathaniel Curtis
    Nathaniel Curtis is a British actor best known for his role in the acclaimed television drama "It's a Sin."
  • C. Nathaniel Curtis
    Nathaniel Curtis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the classic MGM musical film "The Harvey Girls."
  • D. Henry Miller Shreve
    Henry Miller Shreve was a 19th-century American steamboat captain and engineer renowned for pioneering river navigation improvements on the Mississippi and Red Rivers.
  • E. Samuel Ballard
    Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
  • 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_69bd446de5648190b313a90bd96730d2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84d9a0788190a4a85a9cab07903f completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf06e98e48819091c666cf7872a7f8 completed March 21, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf0af33a088190a9302dfcfa632155 completed March 21, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf0b5143148190acf674627ff951ca completed March 21, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.