Triple

T9534253
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Van Cortlandt family E229971 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Jacobus Van Cortlandt
Jacobus Van Cortlandt was a prominent colonial-era New York merchant and politician who served multiple terms as mayor of New York City and helped establish the Van Cortlandt family’s lasting influence in the region.
E753424 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: Jacobus Van Cortlandt | Statement: [Van Cortlandt family, notableMember, Jacobus Van Cortlandt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacobus Van Cortlandt
Context triple: [Van Cortlandt family, notableMember, Jacobus Van Cortlandt]
  • A. Frederick Van Cortlandt
    Frederick Van Cortlandt was an 18th-century New York landowner and member of the prominent Van Cortlandt family associated with the historic Van Cortlandt House in the Bronx.
  • B. Pierre Van Cortlandt
    Pierre Van Cortlandt was an American patriot and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor of New York during and after the Revolutionary War.
  • C. Van Cortlandt
    Van Cortlandt is a prominent Dutch-origin family name historically associated with an influential colonial-era New York family involved in politics, landownership, and commerce.
  • D. Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
    Gulian Crommelin Verplanck was a 19th-century American politician, lawyer, and writer from New York, known for his literary criticism and involvement in the city’s cultural and intellectual life.
  • E. Thom Schuyler
    Thom Schuyler is an American country music songwriter and singer best known for penning numerous hits in the 1980s and serving as a prominent figure in Nashville’s songwriting community.
  • 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: Jacobus Van Cortlandt
Triple: [Van Cortlandt family, notableMember, Jacobus Van Cortlandt]
Generated description
Jacobus Van Cortlandt was a prominent colonial-era New York merchant and politician who served multiple terms as mayor of New York City and helped establish the Van Cortlandt family’s lasting influence in the region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacobus Van Cortlandt
Target entity description: Jacobus Van Cortlandt was a prominent colonial-era New York merchant and politician who served multiple terms as mayor of New York City and helped establish the Van Cortlandt family’s lasting influence in the region.
  • A. Frederick Van Cortlandt
    Frederick Van Cortlandt was an 18th-century New York landowner and member of the prominent Van Cortlandt family associated with the historic Van Cortlandt House in the Bronx.
  • B. Pierre Van Cortlandt
    Pierre Van Cortlandt was an American patriot and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor of New York during and after the Revolutionary War.
  • C. Van Cortlandt chosen
    Van Cortlandt is a prominent Dutch-origin family name historically associated with an influential colonial-era New York family involved in politics, landownership, and commerce.
  • D. Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
    Gulian Crommelin Verplanck was a 19th-century American politician, lawyer, and writer from New York, known for his literary criticism and involvement in the city’s cultural and intellectual life.
  • E. Thom Schuyler
    Thom Schuyler is an American country music songwriter and singer best known for penning numerous hits in the 1980s and serving as a prominent figure in Nashville’s songwriting community.
  • 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_69ca8479934c81908006d0e6e970ae05 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd98c9fef88190beb291b41ee26066 completed April 1, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1612f86ac8190a19a2d17b25c08e6 completed April 4, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d161c432b08190ba848159cc26a00c completed April 4, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d162fc597081909a57f842e41b1ad4 completed April 4, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8 p.m.