Triple

T9501748
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Davis Ticknor E229157 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Howard Malcom Ticknor
Howard Malcom Ticknor was a 19th-century American editor and publisher associated with the Boston-based Ticknor family of prominent literary figures.
E808652 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: Howard Malcom Ticknor | Statement: [William Davis Ticknor, child, Howard Malcom Ticknor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Malcom Ticknor
Context triple: [William Davis Ticknor, child, Howard Malcom Ticknor]
  • A. William Davis Ticknor
    William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
  • B. Charles Wolcott
    Charles Wolcott was an American composer and music director best known for his work on numerous Walt Disney animated films in the 1940s.
  • C. Charles Coffin Jewett
    Charles Coffin Jewett was a 19th-century American politician who served as mayor of Columbus, Ohio.
  • D. Henry Varnum Poor
    Henry Varnum Poor was a 19th-century American financial analyst and publisher whose work in railroad investment reporting laid the foundation for the modern credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s.
  • E. Henry Varnum Poor
    Henry Varnum Poor was an American painter, sculptor, and architect known for his modernist work and for helping shape mid-20th-century art education.
  • 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: Howard Malcom Ticknor
Triple: [William Davis Ticknor, child, Howard Malcom Ticknor]
Generated description
Howard Malcom Ticknor was a 19th-century American editor and publisher associated with the Boston-based Ticknor family of prominent literary figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Malcom Ticknor
Target entity description: Howard Malcom Ticknor was a 19th-century American editor and publisher associated with the Boston-based Ticknor family of prominent literary figures.
  • A. William Davis Ticknor
    William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
  • B. Charles Wolcott
    Charles Wolcott was an American composer and music director best known for his work on numerous Walt Disney animated films in the 1940s.
  • C. Charles Coffin Jewett
    Charles Coffin Jewett was a 19th-century American politician who served as mayor of Columbus, Ohio.
  • D. Henry Varnum Poor
    Henry Varnum Poor was a 19th-century American financial analyst and publisher whose work in railroad investment reporting laid the foundation for the modern credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s.
  • E. Henry Varnum Poor
    Henry Varnum Poor was an American painter, sculptor, and architect known for his modernist work and for helping shape mid-20th-century art education.
  • 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_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_69d16126726c81908e6194a5db342c57 completed April 4, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1634b3cf481909725074696790247 completed April 4, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d163e654388190ba9b617e6fac18ad completed April 4, 2026, 7:17 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:57 p.m.