Triple

T1052003
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boylston Street, Boston E22719 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Ward Nicholas Boylston
Ward Nicholas Boylston was an 18th–19th century Boston merchant and philanthropist known for his substantial charitable contributions and support of educational institutions such as Harvard University.
E121086 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: Ward Nicholas Boylston | Statement: [Boylston Street, Boston, namedAfter, Ward Nicholas Boylston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ward Nicholas Boylston
Context triple: [Boylston Street, Boston, namedAfter, Ward Nicholas Boylston]
  • A. Benjamin Winthrop
    Benjamin Winthrop was an early American financier known for being among the original New York brokers who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • B. Dr. Samuel Hopkins
    Dr. Samuel Hopkins is a fictional Calvinist minister and theologian in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister's Wooing," loosely based on the historical New England preacher of the same name.
  • C. Nathaniel Mather
    Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
  • D. Joseph Warren
    Joseph Warren was an American physician and prominent Patriot leader in the early stages of the American Revolution, known for organizing resistance in Boston and dying at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
  • E. John Warren
    John Warren was an American surgeon and medical educator who co-founded Harvard Medical School and played a key role in advancing clinical practice in Boston in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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: Ward Nicholas Boylston
Triple: [Boylston Street, Boston, namedAfter, Ward Nicholas Boylston]
Generated description
Ward Nicholas Boylston was an 18th–19th century Boston merchant and philanthropist known for his substantial charitable contributions and support of educational institutions such as Harvard University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ward Nicholas Boylston
Target entity description: Ward Nicholas Boylston was an 18th–19th century Boston merchant and philanthropist known for his substantial charitable contributions and support of educational institutions such as Harvard University.
  • A. Benjamin Winthrop
    Benjamin Winthrop was an early American financier known for being among the original New York brokers who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • B. Dr. Samuel Hopkins
    Dr. Samuel Hopkins is a fictional Calvinist minister and theologian in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister's Wooing," loosely based on the historical New England preacher of the same name.
  • C. Nathaniel Mather
    Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
  • D. Joseph Warren
    Joseph Warren was an American physician and prominent Patriot leader in the early stages of the American Revolution, known for organizing resistance in Boston and dying at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
  • E. John Warren
    John Warren was an American surgeon and medical educator who co-founded Harvard Medical School and played a key role in advancing clinical practice in Boston in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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_69a493da02e081908c13ff5e02a0fe7a completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b8b5312081909796df58fa7c1e9d completed March 1, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bcf04448190af136ca4f037547b completed March 7, 2026, 2:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3c9a92008190a6336626faed36bd completed March 7, 2026, 2:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3d0fcdb88190b4c5e5ddf41e2716 completed March 7, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.