Triple

T559390
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Commandant of the Marine Corps E13413 entity
Predicate firstHolder P291 FINISHED
Object Samuel Nicholas
Samuel Nicholas was a Continental Marine officer who is traditionally recognized as the first leader of what would become the United States Marine Corps during the American Revolutionary War.
E73085 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: Samuel Nicholas | Statement: [Commandant of the Marine Corps, firstHolder, Samuel Nicholas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Nicholas
Context triple: [Commandant of the Marine Corps, firstHolder, Samuel Nicholas]
  • A. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • B. Henry Havelock
    Henry Havelock was a British general noted for his leadership during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, particularly in the relief of Lucknow.
  • C. Nicholas Bayard
    Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
  • D. Sir John Parker
    Sir John Parker is a prominent British industrialist and business leader known for his extensive career chairing major engineering and shipbuilding companies and influencing UK corporate governance.
  • E. Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
    Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
  • 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: Samuel Nicholas
Triple: [Commandant of the Marine Corps, firstHolder, Samuel Nicholas]
Generated description
Samuel Nicholas was a Continental Marine officer who is traditionally recognized as the first leader of what would become the United States Marine Corps during the American Revolutionary War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Nicholas
Target entity description: Samuel Nicholas was a Continental Marine officer who is traditionally recognized as the first leader of what would become the United States Marine Corps during the American Revolutionary War.
  • A. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • B. Henry Havelock
    Henry Havelock was a British general noted for his leadership during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, particularly in the relief of Lucknow.
  • C. Nicholas Bayard
    Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
  • D. Sir John Parker
    Sir John Parker is a prominent British industrialist and business leader known for his extensive career chairing major engineering and shipbuilding companies and influencing UK corporate governance.
  • E. Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
    Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
  • 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_69a4933edcf08190b35ecfd6014caee6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a499e13694819087a236bffa6601a9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a50e219c788190888ef02fad09096e completed March 2, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a50e8f3be48190afff999bc3fa9f8a completed March 2, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a50ee34654819097bc0f70bd59de4d completed March 2, 2026, 4:15 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.