Triple

T585087
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rensselaer County E15139 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
E86444 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: Stephen Van Rensselaer | Statement: [Rensselaer County, namedAfter, Stephen Van Rensselaer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Van Rensselaer
Context triple: [Rensselaer County, namedAfter, Stephen Van Rensselaer]
  • A. Abraham Van Brunt
    Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • B. Selden Chapin
    Selden Chapin was an American diplomat and career Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts for the United States during the mid-20th century.
  • C. William Burnet Tuthill
    William Burnet Tuthill was an American architect best known for designing New York City's renowned concert venue Carnegie Hall.
  • D. William West Durant
    William West Durant was an American architect and developer best known for pioneering the rustic yet luxurious Adirondack Great Camp style in upstate New York during the late 19th century.
  • E. Robert R. Livingston
    Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
  • 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: Stephen Van Rensselaer
Triple: [Rensselaer County, namedAfter, Stephen Van Rensselaer]
Generated description
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Van Rensselaer
Target entity description: Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • A. Abraham Van Brunt
    Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • B. Selden Chapin
    Selden Chapin was an American diplomat and career Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts for the United States during the mid-20th century.
  • C. William Burnet Tuthill
    William Burnet Tuthill was an American architect best known for designing New York City's renowned concert venue Carnegie Hall.
  • D. William West Durant
    William West Durant was an American architect and developer best known for pioneering the rustic yet luxurious Adirondack Great Camp style in upstate New York during the late 19th century.
  • E. Robert R. Livingston
    Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
  • 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_69a4935783b8819082b77726ec10cc42 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b9874c88190bd1e08d4689ea124 completed March 1, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a6373fbf388190afb01fcfd67f03bf completed March 3, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a63b4f47d481909c9d26a28f301120 completed March 3, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a63bd4f4888190a9beffad6d49ec8f completed March 3, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.