Triple

T7590495
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Johnstown, New York, United States E179723 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Sir William Johnson
Sir William Johnson was an 18th-century British colonial official and influential superintendent of Indian affairs in North America, known for his powerful role in frontier diplomacy and settlement in what is now upstate New York.
E675299 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: Sir William Johnson | Statement: [Johnstown, New York, United States, namedAfter, Sir William Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir William Johnson
Context triple: [Johnstown, New York, United States, namedAfter, Sir William Johnson]
  • A. William Johnson
    William Johnson was an early 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his strong support of federal power and independent judicial reasoning.
  • B. Joseph Brant
    Joseph Brant was a prominent 18th-century Mohawk military and political leader who allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War and became an influential figure in Indigenous-settler relations in North America.
  • C. Conrad Weiser
    Conrad Weiser was a prominent 18th-century Pennsylvania German pioneer and interpreter who played a key diplomatic role between colonial authorities and Native American nations, especially the Iroquois.
  • D. Kiliaen van Rensselaer
    Kiliaen van Rensselaer was a 17th-century Dutch merchant and one of the principal founders and patroons of the colony of Rensselaerswyck in New Netherland.
  • E. George Jarvis
    George Jarvis was an American-born philhellene who fought in the Greek War of Independence and became known for his dedication to the Greek cause.
  • 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: Sir William Johnson
Triple: [Johnstown, New York, United States, namedAfter, Sir William Johnson]
Generated description
Sir William Johnson was an 18th-century British colonial official and influential superintendent of Indian affairs in North America, known for his powerful role in frontier diplomacy and settlement in what is now upstate New York.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir William Johnson
Target entity description: Sir William Johnson was an 18th-century British colonial official and influential superintendent of Indian affairs in North America, known for his powerful role in frontier diplomacy and settlement in what is now upstate New York.
  • A. William Johnson
    William Johnson was an early 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his strong support of federal power and independent judicial reasoning.
  • B. Joseph Brant
    Joseph Brant was a prominent 18th-century Mohawk military and political leader who allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War and became an influential figure in Indigenous-settler relations in North America.
  • C. Conrad Weiser
    Conrad Weiser was a prominent 18th-century Pennsylvania German pioneer and interpreter who played a key diplomatic role between colonial authorities and Native American nations, especially the Iroquois.
  • D. Kiliaen van Rensselaer
    Kiliaen van Rensselaer was a 17th-century Dutch merchant and one of the principal founders and patroons of the colony of Rensselaerswyck in New Netherland.
  • E. George Jarvis
    George Jarvis was an American-born philhellene who fought in the Greek War of Independence and became known for his dedication to the Greek cause.
  • 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_69c69f335248819093c1006f30513708 completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f9b615f481908b2fe7e8aaed81bc completed March 27, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c86192b5d88190b0a02cf303462bfb completed March 28, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8628d252c8190bc67e90f497f1ada completed March 28, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8631e5c2c8190b1c593ca9bbf039c completed March 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:53 p.m.