Triple

T5600922
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elizabeth Shaw Melville E147116 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Lemuel Shaw
Lemuel Shaw was a prominent 19th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was the father-in-law of novelist Herman Melville.
E536867 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: Lemuel Shaw | Statement: [Elizabeth Shaw Melville, father, Lemuel Shaw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lemuel Shaw
Context triple: [Elizabeth Shaw Melville, father, Lemuel Shaw]
  • A. Elizur Holyoke
    Elizur Holyoke was a 17th-century English colonist and surveyor in New England whose explorations and land divisions in the Connecticut River Valley led to several places, including the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, bearing his name.
  • B. James Mott
    James Mott was a 19th-century American Quaker merchant and reformer known for his support of abolitionism and women’s rights alongside his wife, Lucretia Mott.
  • C. Amasa Stone
    Amasa Stone was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and railroad magnate based in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • D. Eleazar W. Ripley
    Eleazar W. Ripley was an American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Army general during the War of 1812, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
  • E. Josiah Quincy Jr.
    Josiah Quincy Jr. was a prominent colonial American lawyer and patriot leader who, despite his opposition to British policies, helped defend the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
  • 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: Lemuel Shaw
Triple: [Elizabeth Shaw Melville, father, Lemuel Shaw]
Generated description
Lemuel Shaw was a prominent 19th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was the father-in-law of novelist Herman Melville.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lemuel Shaw
Target entity description: Lemuel Shaw was a prominent 19th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was the father-in-law of novelist Herman Melville.
  • A. Elizur Holyoke
    Elizur Holyoke was a 17th-century English colonist and surveyor in New England whose explorations and land divisions in the Connecticut River Valley led to several places, including the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, bearing his name.
  • B. James Mott
    James Mott was a 19th-century American Quaker merchant and reformer known for his support of abolitionism and women’s rights alongside his wife, Lucretia Mott.
  • C. Amasa Stone
    Amasa Stone was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and railroad magnate based in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • D. Eleazar W. Ripley
    Eleazar W. Ripley was an American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Army general during the War of 1812, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
  • E. Josiah Quincy Jr.
    Josiah Quincy Jr. was a prominent colonial American lawyer and patriot leader who, despite his opposition to British policies, helped defend the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
  • 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_69c009043d648190a7af89698ccf1e3e completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c020da519c81908626b243e40db263 completed March 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d40049881908bf32e4932094c52 completed March 22, 2026, 8:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04e88680c8190845723f52c060fb7 completed March 22, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f7856848190a835c3ee0a32f649 completed March 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:39 p.m.