Triple
T10417527
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Timothy Pickering |
E245558
|
entity |
| Predicate | placeOfDeath |
P21
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Salem, Massachusetts, United States |
E23727
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Salem, Massachusetts, United States | Statement: [Timothy Pickering, placeOfDeath, Salem, Massachusetts, United States]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Salem, Massachusetts, United States Context triple: [Timothy Pickering, placeOfDeath, Salem, Massachusetts, United States]
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A.
Salem, Massachusetts
chosen
Salem, Massachusetts is a historic coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts best known for the 1692 witch trials and its enduring maritime and colonial heritage.
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B.
Medford, Massachusetts
Medford, Massachusetts is a historic city just northwest of Boston, known for being the home of Tufts University and for its role in early American colonial and industrial history.
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C.
Gardner, Massachusetts
Gardner, Massachusetts is a small city in north-central Massachusetts known historically for its furniture manufacturing industry and nickname "The Chair City."
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D.
Clinton, Massachusetts, United States
Clinton, Massachusetts, United States, is a small New England town in Worcester County known historically for its textile mills and the nearby Wachusett Reservoir.
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E.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Danvers, Massachusetts is a historic New England town north of Boston, best known as the former Salem Village associated with the 1692 Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4ea1194e08190a18c3b3002147493 |
completed | April 7, 2026, 11:27 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d90d92510481909135a75b2f582795 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:47 p.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:11 p.m.