Triple

T7345779
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Nation E169375 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Edwin Lawrence Godkin was an Irish-born American journalist and political commentator best known for his influential leadership in liberal reform journalism in the late 19th century United States.
E717622 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: Edwin Lawrence Godkin | Statement: [The Nation, founder, Edwin Lawrence Godkin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Context triple: [The Nation, founder, Edwin Lawrence Godkin]
  • A. Henry A. Walke
    Henry A. Walke was a United States Navy officer noted for his distinguished service during the 19th century, particularly in the American Civil War.
  • B. Henry Gannett
    Henry Gannett was an American geographer and cartographer known as the “Father of American Mapmaking” and a founding figure in modern American geography.
  • C. Frederick P. Hamlin
    Frederick P. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or distinguished bearer of the surname Hamlin.
  • D. George Templeton Strong
    George Templeton Strong was a prominent 19th-century New York lawyer and diarist whose detailed journals provide a major firsthand account of American social and political life during the Civil War era.
  • E. William Platt
    William Platt was a British Army general best known for leading successful operations against Italian forces in East Africa during the Second World War.
  • 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: Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Triple: [The Nation, founder, Edwin Lawrence Godkin]
Generated description
Edwin Lawrence Godkin was an Irish-born American journalist and political commentator best known for his influential leadership in liberal reform journalism in the late 19th century United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Target entity description: Edwin Lawrence Godkin was an Irish-born American journalist and political commentator best known for his influential leadership in liberal reform journalism in the late 19th century United States.
  • A. Henry A. Walke
    Henry A. Walke was a United States Navy officer noted for his distinguished service during the 19th century, particularly in the American Civil War.
  • B. Henry Gannett
    Henry Gannett was an American geographer and cartographer known as the “Father of American Mapmaking” and a founding figure in modern American geography.
  • C. Frederick P. Hamlin
    Frederick P. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or distinguished bearer of the surname Hamlin.
  • D. George Templeton Strong
    George Templeton Strong was a prominent 19th-century New York lawyer and diarist whose detailed journals provide a major firsthand account of American social and political life during the Civil War era.
  • E. William Platt
    William Platt was a British Army general best known for leading successful operations against Italian forces in East Africa during the Second World War.
  • 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_69c68a5878888190968ce4d04db8d69f completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f0f0329c8190a0182e3bf62604e5 completed March 27, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccec1cb5d48190ac9f6ad5920403f1 completed April 1, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccf0982f4481908e2a59424fdf470f completed April 1, 2026, 10:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd051913708190a83f925cf0cbbaa1 completed April 1, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:05 p.m.