Triple

T720669
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Anti-Federalists E14608 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Melancton Smith
Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
 E161073 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: Melancton Smith | Statement: [Anti-Federalists, notableMember, Melancton Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Melancton Smith
Context triple: [Anti-Federalists, notableMember, Melancton Smith]
  • A. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • B. Lewis Cass Judson
    Lewis Cass Judson was an American pioneer and early settler associated with the development of the Pacific Northwest region.
  • C. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • D. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • E. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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: Melancton Smith
Triple: [Anti-Federalists, notableMember, Melancton Smith]
Generated description
Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Melancton Smith
Target entity description: Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
  • A. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • B. Lewis Cass Judson
    Lewis Cass Judson was an American pioneer and early settler associated with the development of the Pacific Northwest region.
  • C. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • D. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • E. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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_69a4934c753c81909b309027e48b9b3a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a58fa41c819082de2cc4e0cb2943 completed March 1, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace5371c2c8190861a5cbf9d089e4f completed March 8, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace5db553c8190b0d09462411f3dcf completed March 8, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace647c04881908ab550505110c29b completed March 8, 2026, 3 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.