Triple
T8206949
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Colonial Boston |
E191710
|
entity |
| Predicate | notablePerson |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Otis Jr. |
E35528
|
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: James Otis Jr. | Statement: [Colonial Boston, notablePerson, James Otis Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Otis Jr. Context triple: [Colonial Boston, notablePerson, James Otis Jr.]
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A.
James Otis Jr.
chosen
James Otis Jr. was an influential colonial lawyer and early American revolutionary thinker whose arguments against British taxation helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the American Revolution.
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B.
James Otis Sr.
James Otis Sr. was a prominent colonial Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and judge who played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary New England public life.
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C.
Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Hutchinson was a Loyalist colonial governor and historian of Massachusetts whose staunch support for British authority made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
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D.
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine was an American Founding Father and lawyer best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts.
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E.
James Duane
James Duane was an American lawyer, statesman, and jurist who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later became the first post-Revolutionary mayor of New York City.
- 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_69ca82c7f3e08190857bf1fc63b2a10c |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb726b520081908ce4a03bd14dfcdf |
completed | March 31, 2026, 7:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cd34b49fb88190b30a89d594ed4ada |
completed | April 1, 2026, 3:07 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:43 p.m.