Triple

T8193141
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States presidential election, 1896 E191362 entity
Predicate DemocraticRunningMate P1793 FINISHED
Object Arthur Sewall
Arthur Sewall was an American shipbuilder, businessman, and politician from Maine who is best known for serving as William Jennings Bryan’s Democratic vice-presidential running mate in the 1896 U.S. presidential election.
E718332 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: Arthur Sewall | Statement: [United States presidential election, 1896, DemocraticRunningMate, Arthur Sewall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Sewall
Context triple: [United States presidential election, 1896, DemocraticRunningMate, Arthur Sewall]
  • A. Stephen Sewall
    Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
  • B. Samuel Sewall
    Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
  • C. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • D. Cotton Mather
    Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
  • E. Eleazar Mather
    Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
  • 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: Arthur Sewall
Triple: [United States presidential election, 1896, DemocraticRunningMate, Arthur Sewall]
Generated description
Arthur Sewall was an American shipbuilder, businessman, and politician from Maine who is best known for serving as William Jennings Bryan’s Democratic vice-presidential running mate in the 1896 U.S. presidential election.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Sewall
Target entity description: Arthur Sewall was an American shipbuilder, businessman, and politician from Maine who is best known for serving as William Jennings Bryan’s Democratic vice-presidential running mate in the 1896 U.S. presidential election.
  • A. Stephen Sewall
    Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
  • B. Samuel Sewall
    Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
  • C. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • D. Cotton Mather
    Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
  • E. Eleazar Mather
    Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
  • 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_69ca82c5b6948190a583c096fb0a6c71 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb5c1d7aa48190adbbce88b3bed1a3 completed March 31, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cceda1b22c8190acc1a2cd0fe36b70 completed April 1, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccf1b706f08190993f4a75eac5f49c completed April 1, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd059457788190a900402ee4cd50d5 completed April 1, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:42 p.m.