Triple

T9501733
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Davis Ticknor E229157 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Ticknor
Ticknor is a surname most notably associated with American publisher William Davis Ticknor and other members of the Ticknor family involved in 19th-century literary and cultural life.
 E34932 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: Ticknor | Statement: [William Davis Ticknor, familyName, Ticknor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ticknor
Context triple: [William Davis Ticknor, familyName, Ticknor]
  • A. Ticknor and Fields
    Ticknor and Fields was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house based in Boston, known for issuing works by leading New England authors and shaping the era’s literary culture.
  • B. Bancroft
    Bancroft is an English-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, academia, and the arts.
  • C. Southworth
    Southworth is a surname most notably associated with Lucinda Southworth, an American researcher and the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
  • D. Kittredge
    Kittredge is an English-language surname borne by various notable figures, including American writer Charmian Kittredge London.
  • E. Bridgman
    Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
  • 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: Ticknor
Triple: [William Davis Ticknor, familyName, Ticknor]
Generated description
Ticknor is a surname most notably associated with American publisher William Davis Ticknor and other members of the Ticknor family involved in 19th-century literary and cultural life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ticknor
Target entity description: Ticknor is a surname most notably associated with American publisher William Davis Ticknor and other members of the Ticknor family involved in 19th-century literary and cultural life.
  • A. Ticknor and Fields chosen
    Ticknor and Fields was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house based in Boston, known for issuing works by leading New England authors and shaping the era’s literary culture.
  • B. Bancroft
    Bancroft is an English-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, academia, and the arts.
  • C. Southworth
    Southworth is a surname most notably associated with Lucinda Southworth, an American researcher and the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
  • D. Kittredge
    Kittredge is an English-language surname borne by various notable figures, including American writer Charmian Kittredge London.
  • E. Bridgman
    Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca84753660819098e8d416e89e26ae completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd983d4b708190a4dfef1246986a26 completed April 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d13a10f7b08190b8e4d4bc3b9815c6 completed April 4, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d13af4a2d481908dbec71fa8c25c69 completed April 4, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d13bb706a88190bc2eec00c3e52e94 completed April 4, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:57 p.m.