Triple

T911222
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Cotton E19661 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England
The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England is a 17th-century treatise by Puritan minister John Cotton that systematically defends and explains the principles and practices of New England Congregational church polity.
E107510 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: The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England | Statement: [John Cotton, notableWork, The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England
Context triple: [John Cotton, notableWork, The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England]
  • A. The Christian Baptist
    The Christian Baptist was an early 19th-century religious periodical that Alexander Campbell used to promote Restorationist theology and critique established church practices in the United States.
  • B. Churches of Christ
    Churches of Christ are a network of autonomous Christian congregations rooted in the American Restoration Movement, emphasizing New Testament Christianity, congregational independence, and a cappella worship.
  • C. New England clergy
    New England clergy were the influential Puritan ministers and religious leaders who shaped the spiritual, social, and intellectual life of the early New England colonies.
  • D. The Reformed Liturgy
    The Reformed Liturgy is a 17th-century Puritan worship manual by Richard Baxter that sought to provide a simpler, more scripturally grounded alternative to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
  • E. Magnalia Christi Americana
    Magnalia Christi Americana is Cotton Mather’s extensive early 18th-century ecclesiastical history of New England, detailing its religious leaders, institutions, and providential events.
  • 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: The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England
Triple: [John Cotton, notableWork, The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England]
Generated description
The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England is a 17th-century treatise by Puritan minister John Cotton that systematically defends and explains the principles and practices of New England Congregational church polity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England
Target entity description: The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England is a 17th-century treatise by Puritan minister John Cotton that systematically defends and explains the principles and practices of New England Congregational church polity.
  • A. The Christian Baptist
    The Christian Baptist was an early 19th-century religious periodical that Alexander Campbell used to promote Restorationist theology and critique established church practices in the United States.
  • B. Churches of Christ
    Churches of Christ are a network of autonomous Christian congregations rooted in the American Restoration Movement, emphasizing New Testament Christianity, congregational independence, and a cappella worship.
  • C. New England clergy
    New England clergy were the influential Puritan ministers and religious leaders who shaped the spiritual, social, and intellectual life of the early New England colonies.
  • D. The Reformed Liturgy
    The Reformed Liturgy is a 17th-century Puritan worship manual by Richard Baxter that sought to provide a simpler, more scripturally grounded alternative to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
  • E. Magnalia Christi Americana
    Magnalia Christi Americana is Cotton Mather’s extensive early 18th-century ecclesiastical history of New England, detailing its religious leaders, institutions, and providential events.
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2de5b008190851852331db41324 completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7c73d5bdc8190828cdf9f54e33a46 completed March 4, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c8c148708190bfdee5a55ab6d149 completed March 4, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7ca1e37f4819086cda13a446642e2 completed March 4, 2026, 5:58 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.