Triple
T7617721
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Lewis Herndon |
E172402
|
entity |
| Predicate | relative |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Matthew Fontaine Maury |
E243513
|
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: Matthew Fontaine Maury | Statement: [William Lewis Herndon, relative, Matthew Fontaine Maury]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Fontaine Maury Context triple: [William Lewis Herndon, relative, Matthew Fontaine Maury]
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A.
Matthew Fontaine Maury
chosen
Matthew Fontaine Maury was a 19th-century American naval officer, oceanographer, and pioneering cartographer known as the "Pathfinder of the Seas" for his groundbreaking work in marine navigation and meteorology.
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B.
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was a Swiss-American surveyor and scientist who became the first superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, laying the foundations for modern American coastal mapping and geodesy.
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C.
William Thomas Sampson
William Thomas Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for commanding American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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D.
Edward Preble
Edward Preble was a prominent early United States naval officer best known for his aggressive and influential leadership in the Mediterranean during the early 19th century.
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E.
Charles Elliot
Charles Elliot was a British naval officer and diplomat who played a pivotal role in the early stages of the First Opium War between Britain and Qing China.
- 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_69c699506b308190826894dab1d9ea86 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6fa46d95081909c01d1432585ab2a |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c868714d7c8190aae66a3dd4e6214b |
completed | March 28, 2026, 11:46 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:55 p.m.