Triple
T80402
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Henry David Thoreau |
E1614
|
entity |
| Predicate | familyName |
P18
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thoreau |
E1614
|
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: Thoreau | Statement: [Henry David Thoreau, familyName, Thoreau]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thoreau Context triple: [Henry David Thoreau, familyName, Thoreau]
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A.
Henry David Thoreau
chosen
Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American transcendentalist writer, philosopher, and naturalist best known for his works "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience," which advocated simple living and principled resistance to unjust laws.
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B.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a 19th-century American essayist, lecturer, and central figure of the transcendentalist movement, renowned for works such as "Self-Reliance" and "Nature."
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C.
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Walden; or, Life in the Woods is Henry David Thoreau’s seminal 1854 work of philosophical memoir and nature writing, reflecting on simple living, self-reliance, and spiritual contemplation during his experiment in solitude at Walden Pond.
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D.
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier was a prominent 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist best known for his anti-slavery writings and New England regional verse.
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E.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th-century American novelist and short story writer best known for his dark romantic works exploring sin, guilt, and morality, including "The Scarlet Letter" and "The House of the Seven Gables."
- 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_69a24c60d19c8190a1b6c105ca59ef5b |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a24f354d088190972791051d2d99f8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a26c1b81a88190ba473b28dd88fdb8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:16 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.