Triple

T817831
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Province of Massachusetts Bay E17688 entity
Predicate notableGovernor P5756 FINISHED
Object William Shirley
William Shirley was an 18th-century British colonial administrator best known for his role as governor of Massachusetts during King George’s War and the early stages of the French and Indian War.
E98251 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: William Shirley | Statement: [Province of Massachusetts Bay, notableGovernor, William Shirley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Shirley
Context triple: [Province of Massachusetts Bay, notableGovernor, William Shirley]
  • A. Joseph Dudley
    Joseph Dudley was a colonial American administrator best known for serving as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • B. Thomas Gage
    Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • D. Esek Hopkins
    Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. John Cotton
    John Cotton was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian in colonial New England, influential in shaping early American religious thought.
  • 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: William Shirley
Triple: [Province of Massachusetts Bay, notableGovernor, William Shirley]
Generated description
William Shirley was an 18th-century British colonial administrator best known for his role as governor of Massachusetts during King George’s War and the early stages of the French and Indian War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Shirley
Target entity description: William Shirley was an 18th-century British colonial administrator best known for his role as governor of Massachusetts during King George’s War and the early stages of the French and Indian War.
  • A. Joseph Dudley
    Joseph Dudley was a colonial American administrator best known for serving as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • B. Thomas Gage
    Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • D. Esek Hopkins
    Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. John Cotton
    John Cotton was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian in colonial New England, influential in shaping early American religious thought.
  • 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_69a4937bcaac8190a322524ac6f45a5a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab63f4a48190a61a14c3c41ed641 completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d8f639081909690d1ef4c98680e completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a781f5536c81908175d58b6b75adba completed March 4, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7860e656c8190a08a9999662ba1f1 completed March 4, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.