Triple

T7736854
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Van Ness Street NW E175403 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John Van Ness
John Van Ness was an early 19th-century American politician and public figure associated with the development and civic life of Washington, D.C.
 E691613 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: John Van Ness | Statement: [Van Ness Street NW, namedAfter, John Van Ness]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Van Ness
Context triple: [Van Ness Street NW, namedAfter, John Van Ness]
  • A. Dewitt Peters
    Dewitt Peters was an American educator and art promoter best known for fostering and popularizing Haitian art in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Edgar A. Joralemon
    Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
  • C. John D. Nichols
    John D. Nichols is a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to the arts and culture sector led to major landmarks being named in his honor.
  • D. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • E. William W. Norton
    William W. Norton was an American publisher who co-founded the influential independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
  • 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: John Van Ness
Triple: [Van Ness Street NW, namedAfter, John Van Ness]
Generated description
John Van Ness was an early 19th-century American politician and public figure associated with the development and civic life of Washington, D.C.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Van Ness
Target entity description: John Van Ness was an early 19th-century American politician and public figure associated with the development and civic life of Washington, D.C.
  • A. Dewitt Peters
    Dewitt Peters was an American educator and art promoter best known for fostering and popularizing Haitian art in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Edgar A. Joralemon
    Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
  • C. John D. Nichols
    John D. Nichols is a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to the arts and culture sector led to major landmarks being named in his honor.
  • D. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • E. William W. Norton
    William W. Norton was an American publisher who co-founded the influential independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
  • 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_69c6995f9c60819092e386192bd63c6f completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c7035923108190842025631e2314cc completed March 27, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c9953aff988190a3224050e5706589 completed March 29, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c996242f18819094d043f3e7f6be53 completed March 29, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c9967b4b44819096a577e75ecc3975 completed March 29, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:07 p.m.