Triple

T8480174
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smith Thompson E200493 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Benjamin W. Crowninshield
Benjamin W. Crowninshield was an American politician and merchant who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy during the early 19th century.
E738995 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: Benjamin W. Crowninshield | Statement: [Smith Thompson, precededBy, Benjamin W. Crowninshield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin W. Crowninshield
Context triple: [Smith Thompson, precededBy, Benjamin W. Crowninshield]
  • A. Robert H. Treman
    Robert H. Treman was a prominent Ithaca, New York businessman and conservationist whose philanthropy and land donations helped establish the state park that bears his name.
  • B. George Cabot
    George Cabot was an American Federalist politician and statesman from Massachusetts who served in the U.S. Senate and became a leading voice of New England Federalism in the early 19th century.
  • C. Thomas A. Bartlett
    Thomas A. Bartlett is an American academic leader and former university president known for his influential roles in higher education administration and policy.
  • D. Chauncey Goodrich
    Chauncey Goodrich was an American lawyer, politician, and lexicographer known for his work on early American dictionaries and his service in the U.S. Congress and as lieutenant governor of Connecticut.
  • E. Edwards Pierrepont
    Edwards Pierrepont was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General and later Minister to the United Kingdom in the 19th century.
  • 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: Benjamin W. Crowninshield
Triple: [Smith Thompson, precededBy, Benjamin W. Crowninshield]
Generated description
Benjamin W. Crowninshield was an American politician and merchant who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy during the early 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin W. Crowninshield
Target entity description: Benjamin W. Crowninshield was an American politician and merchant who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy during the early 19th century.
  • A. Robert H. Treman
    Robert H. Treman was a prominent Ithaca, New York businessman and conservationist whose philanthropy and land donations helped establish the state park that bears his name.
  • B. George Cabot
    George Cabot was an American Federalist politician and statesman from Massachusetts who served in the U.S. Senate and became a leading voice of New England Federalism in the early 19th century.
  • C. Thomas A. Bartlett
    Thomas A. Bartlett is an American academic leader and former university president known for his influential roles in higher education administration and policy.
  • D. Chauncey Goodrich
    Chauncey Goodrich was an American lawyer, politician, and lexicographer known for his work on early American dictionaries and his service in the U.S. Congress and as lieutenant governor of Connecticut.
  • E. Edwards Pierrepont
    Edwards Pierrepont was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General and later Minister to the United Kingdom in the 19th century.
  • 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_69ca831b17988190a1f3f3413d57b820 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe5232d008190ae55b982f5fc9e8b completed March 31, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce4de95e3081908277c65598f3884a completed April 2, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce5028c38c81908e81390d0be21387 completed April 2, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce517fea7c819098d0343fd2c4ccdd completed April 2, 2026, 11:22 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:12 p.m.