Triple

T1045341
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Voyage of Life: Old Age E22564 entity
Predicate originalCommissioner P3178 FINISHED
Object Samuel Ward
Samuel Ward was a 19th-century American banker and art patron known for commissioning significant works such as Thomas Cole’s "The Voyage of Life" series.
E175415 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Samuel Ward | Statement: [The Voyage of Life: Old Age, originalCommissioner, Samuel Ward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Ward
Context triple: [The Voyage of Life: Old Age, originalCommissioner, Samuel Ward]
  • A. Samuel Downing
    Samuel Downing was the father of influential 19th-century American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
  • B. Samuel Allison
    Samuel Allison was an American physicist known for his work on nuclear physics and his leadership role in the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.
  • C. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • D. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • E. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • 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: Samuel Ward
Triple: [The Voyage of Life: Old Age, originalCommissioner, Samuel Ward]
Generated description
Samuel Ward was a 19th-century American banker and art patron known for commissioning significant works such as Thomas Cole’s "The Voyage of Life" series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Ward
Target entity description: Samuel Ward was a 19th-century American banker and art patron known for commissioning significant works such as Thomas Cole’s "The Voyage of Life" series.
  • A. Samuel Downing
    Samuel Downing was the father of influential 19th-century American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
  • B. Samuel Allison
    Samuel Allison was an American physicist known for his work on nuclear physics and his leadership role in the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.
  • C. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • D. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • E. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: originalCommissioner
Context triple: [The Voyage of Life: Old Age, originalCommissioner, Samuel Ward]
  • A. commissioner chosen
    Indicates that an entity holds the role or position of commissioner in relation to another entity or context.
  • B. formerDirector
    Indicates that one entity previously held the position of director of the other entity but no longer does.
  • C. commissionerIsPartOf
    Indicates that a commissioner belongs to, is a member of, or is organizationally included within a larger entity or group.
  • D. commissionerAtFounding
    Indicates that an entity served as a commissioner at the time of an organization's or institution's founding.
  • E. commissionerAtTime
    Indicates that a person holds the role or position of commissioner during a specified time or time interval.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a493d91478819094cc01fb65564bc1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b8f28c7c8190b9ca3749666bcbf3 completed March 1, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad307c46988190bb4ba823ad313a88 completed March 8, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad312e77ac8190b931a42317f2cefa completed March 8, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad3184853c8190953b288693ce6ea4 completed March 8, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a4b72e3e488190b768005ad647886b completed March 1, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.