Triple
T728913
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Captain Thomas Preston |
E14788
|
entity |
| Predicate | wasDefendedBy |
P6876
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Josiah Quincy Jr. |
E13387
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Josiah Quincy Jr. | Statement: [Captain Thomas Preston, wasDefendedBy, Josiah Quincy Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josiah Quincy Jr. Context triple: [Captain Thomas Preston, wasDefendedBy, Josiah Quincy Jr.]
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A.
Josiah Quincy Jr.
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
Benjamin Winthrop
Benjamin Winthrop was an early American financier known for being among the original New York brokers who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Thomas Boylston Adams
Thomas Boylston Adams was an American lawyer, diplomat, and the youngest son of U.S. President John Adams who served in various public roles in the early United States.
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E.
John Leverett
John Leverett was a 17th-century colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony who played a key leadership role during King Philip's War.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a4a5c155908190a73a40195f6281b1 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a826c4a35081909903e42dfa56d582 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 12:34 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.