Triple

T1071029
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Houghton Mifflin E23328 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Henry Oscar Houghton
Henry Oscar Houghton was a 19th-century American printer, publisher, and politician best known for co-founding the influential publishing house Houghton Mifflin.
E377094 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: Henry Oscar Houghton | Statement: [Houghton Mifflin, foundedBy, Henry Oscar Houghton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Oscar Houghton
Context triple: [Houghton Mifflin, foundedBy, Henry Oscar Houghton]
  • A. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • B. Herbert Leigh Holman
    Herbert Leigh Holman was a British barrister best known as the first husband of acclaimed actress Vivien Leigh.
  • C. Alfred Morton Githens
    Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
  • D. G. E. H. Palmer
    G. E. H. Palmer was a British scholar and translator best known for co-translating the influential Eastern Orthodox spiritual anthology *The Philokalia* into English.
  • E. Henry William Stisted
    Henry William Stisted was a British army officer and colonial administrator who became the first Lieutenant Governor of Ontario after Canadian Confederation.
  • 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: Henry Oscar Houghton
Triple: [Houghton Mifflin, foundedBy, Henry Oscar Houghton]
Generated description
Henry Oscar Houghton was a 19th-century American printer, publisher, and politician best known for co-founding the influential publishing house Houghton Mifflin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Oscar Houghton
Target entity description: Henry Oscar Houghton was a 19th-century American printer, publisher, and politician best known for co-founding the influential publishing house Houghton Mifflin.
  • A. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • B. Herbert Leigh Holman
    Herbert Leigh Holman was a British barrister best known as the first husband of acclaimed actress Vivien Leigh.
  • C. Alfred Morton Githens
    Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
  • D. G. E. H. Palmer
    G. E. H. Palmer was a British scholar and translator best known for co-translating the influential Eastern Orthodox spiritual anthology *The Philokalia* into English.
  • E. Henry William Stisted
    Henry William Stisted was a British army officer and colonial administrator who became the first Lieutenant Governor of Ontario after Canadian Confederation.
  • 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_69a493ee1f908190992b5f0d1b04459b completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b92848148190ba8795cb8d0a1d0a completed March 1, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4880c8d4c819083a0f49598dbb2d2 completed March 13, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b48bb81ee88190a285c847c85768dd completed March 13, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4a42c67848190956660cd64e5b8e0 completed March 13, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.