Triple

T759004
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dewey Decimal Classification E16023 entity
Predicate creator P184 FINISHED
Object Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey was an American librarian and educator best known for pioneering modern library organization and founding the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
E90480 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: Melvil Dewey | Statement: [Dewey Decimal Classification, creator, Melvil Dewey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melvil Dewey
Context triple: [Dewey Decimal Classification, creator, Melvil Dewey]
  • A. Harry Elkins Widener
    Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
  • B. Henry Billings Brown
    Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court best known for authoring the decision that upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
  • C. Solomon Willard
    Solomon Willard was a 19th-century American architect and stone carver best known for his influential role in early granite construction and contributions to Boston-area landmarks.
  • D. Eugene Garfield
    Eugene Garfield was an American information scientist and bibliometrician best known for pioneering citation indexing and founding the Science Citation Index and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
  • E. Sidney Verba
    Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
  • 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: Melvil Dewey
Triple: [Dewey Decimal Classification, creator, Melvil Dewey]
Generated description
Melvil Dewey was an American librarian and educator best known for pioneering modern library organization and founding the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melvil Dewey
Target entity description: Melvil Dewey was an American librarian and educator best known for pioneering modern library organization and founding the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
  • A. Harry Elkins Widener
    Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
  • B. Henry Billings Brown
    Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court best known for authoring the decision that upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
  • C. Solomon Willard
    Solomon Willard was a 19th-century American architect and stone carver best known for his influential role in early granite construction and contributions to Boston-area landmarks.
  • D. Eugene Garfield
    Eugene Garfield was an American information scientist and bibliometrician best known for pioneering citation indexing and founding the Science Citation Index and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
  • E. Sidney Verba
    Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
  • 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_69a493684ee48190bd43b7c78da4aec8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a67f9778819098d3c144dd26b976 completed March 1, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a65e44b9c88190a4481c28499860d7 completed March 3, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a660a5d3308190ae7f1220704380eb completed March 3, 2026, 4:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a661116e848190b6dde5b3f7570c71 completed March 3, 2026, 4:18 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.