Triple

T10283434
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ruth Cunningham E241162 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object James Otis Jr. E35528 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: James Otis Jr. | Statement: [Ruth Cunningham, spouse, James Otis Jr.]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Otis Jr.
Context triple: [Ruth Cunningham, spouse, James Otis Jr.]
  • A. James Otis Jr. chosen
    James Otis Jr. was an influential colonial lawyer and early American revolutionary thinker whose arguments against British taxation helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the American Revolution.
  • B. James Otis Sr.
    James Otis Sr. was a prominent colonial Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and judge who played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary New England public life.
  • C. Thomas Hutchinson
    Thomas Hutchinson was a Loyalist colonial governor and historian of Massachusetts whose staunch support for British authority made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
  • D. Robert Treat Paine
    Robert Treat Paine was an American Founding Father and lawyer best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts.
  • E. James Duane
    James Duane was an American lawyer, statesman, and jurist who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later became the first post-Revolutionary mayor of New York City.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d381a94c1881908fc38fc263d9b9c2 elicitation completed
NER batch_69d4d2a22f9881908b220dbe1e80c101 ner completed
NED1 batch_69d6f83c3c488190b728783bc260b006 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:39 a.m.