Triple

T5600931
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elizabeth Shaw Melville E147116 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Lemuel Shaw Jr.
Lemuel Shaw Jr. was a 19th-century American figure best known as the brother of Elizabeth Shaw Melville, wife of novelist Herman Melville, and the son of influential Massachusetts jurist Lemuel Shaw.
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 Jr. | Statement: [Elizabeth Shaw Melville, sibling, Lemuel Shaw Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lemuel Shaw Jr.
Context triple: [Elizabeth Shaw Melville, sibling, Lemuel Shaw Jr.]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Ammi B. Young
    Ammi B. Young was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential federal and public building designs in the Greek Revival style.
  • D. Amos Adams Lawrence
    Amos Adams Lawrence was a 19th-century American merchant, philanthropist, and abolitionist whose financial support was crucial in founding educational institutions and anti-slavery settlements in Kansas.
  • E. Josiah Quincy III
    Josiah Quincy III was a prominent American politician and educator who served as mayor of Boston and later as president of Harvard University in the early 19th 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: Lemuel Shaw Jr.
Triple: [Elizabeth Shaw Melville, sibling, Lemuel Shaw Jr.]
Generated description
Lemuel Shaw Jr. was a 19th-century American figure best known as the brother of Elizabeth Shaw Melville, wife of novelist Herman Melville, and the son of influential Massachusetts jurist Lemuel Shaw.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lemuel Shaw Jr.
Target entity description: Lemuel Shaw Jr. was a 19th-century American figure best known as the brother of Elizabeth Shaw Melville, wife of novelist Herman Melville, and the son of influential Massachusetts jurist Lemuel Shaw.
  • A. Lemuel Shaw chosen
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Ammi B. Young
    Ammi B. Young was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential federal and public building designs in the Greek Revival style.
  • D. Amos Adams Lawrence
    Amos Adams Lawrence was a 19th-century American merchant, philanthropist, and abolitionist whose financial support was crucial in founding educational institutions and anti-slavery settlements in Kansas.
  • E. Josiah Quincy III
    Josiah Quincy III was a prominent American politician and educator who served as mayor of Boston and later as president of Harvard University in the early 19th century.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c05a045c4881909a3e48a242db5d22 completed March 22, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0767654a48190889caeb87fae7eef completed March 22, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c076e332d48190bd36ec9a1705602f completed March 22, 2026, 11:10 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:39 p.m.