Triple

T7544
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Salem witch trials E150 entity
Predicate keyFigure P256 FINISHED
Object Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
E3785 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: Increase Mather | Statement: [Salem witch trials, keyFigure, Increase Mather]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Increase Mather
Context triple: [Salem witch trials, keyFigure, Increase Mather]
  • A. Cotton Mather
    Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
  • B. James Bowdoin
    James Bowdoin was an 18th-century American political leader, scholar, and governor of Massachusetts who played a key role in the intellectual and civic life of the early United States.
  • C. John Hancock
    John Hancock was a prominent American Founding Father, revolutionary leader, and the first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, known for his bold and iconic signature.
  • D. John Harvard
    John Harvard was a 17th-century English clergyman and benefactor whose substantial bequest helped establish the institution that became Harvard University.
  • E. Samuel Parris
    Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister of Salem Village whose accusations and sermons helped ignite and intensify the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • 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: Increase Mather
Triple: [Salem witch trials, keyFigure, Increase Mather]
Generated description
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Increase Mather
Target entity description: Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
  • A. Cotton Mather
    Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
  • B. James Bowdoin
    James Bowdoin was an 18th-century American political leader, scholar, and governor of Massachusetts who played a key role in the intellectual and civic life of the early United States.
  • C. John Hancock
    John Hancock was a prominent American Founding Father, revolutionary leader, and the first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, known for his bold and iconic signature.
  • D. John Harvard
    John Harvard was a 17th-century English clergyman and benefactor whose substantial bequest helped establish the institution that became Harvard University.
  • E. Samuel Parris
    Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister of Salem Village whose accusations and sermons helped ignite and intensify the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • 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_69a23bb612708190b09f25385e4b63d1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24659cfe0819088c2e8a61c2274f3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a24e52b304819094ffde051ec9bde3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a24ede3374819089e7fae28c6c9d63 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a24fc8a2a881909e5ae2e03757fbec completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 12:54 a.m.