Triple

T10712924
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas De Witt E252584 entity
Predicate hasSpellingVariant P457 FINISHED
Object Thomas Dewitt
Thomas Dewitt is an individual whose name is a spelling variant of Thomas De Witt, likely referring to the same person across different records or sources.
E881910 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: Thomas Dewitt | Statement: [Thomas De Witt, hasSpellingVariant, Thomas Dewitt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Dewitt
Context triple: [Thomas De Witt, hasSpellingVariant, Thomas Dewitt]
  • A. William De Witt
    William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
  • B. John L. DeWitt
    John L. DeWitt was a U.S. Army general best known for overseeing the Western Defense Command during World War II and for his role in advocating the internment of Japanese Americans.
  • C. Mordecai T. Endicott
    Mordecai T. Endicott was a U.S. Navy civil engineer and Rear Admiral who served as the first Civil Engineer Corps Chief and contributed to early planning efforts for the Panama Canal.
  • D. James S. Wadsworth
    James S. Wadsworth was a 19th-century American military officer and political figure, notably a Union general in the Civil War.
  • E. William F. Connell
    William F. Connell was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Boston College to name its nursing school in his honor.
  • 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: Thomas Dewitt
Triple: [Thomas De Witt, hasSpellingVariant, Thomas Dewitt]
Generated description
Thomas Dewitt is an individual whose name is a spelling variant of Thomas De Witt, likely referring to the same person across different records or sources.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Dewitt
Target entity description: Thomas Dewitt is an individual whose name is a spelling variant of Thomas De Witt, likely referring to the same person across different records or sources.
  • A. William De Witt
    William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
  • B. John L. DeWitt
    John L. DeWitt was a U.S. Army general best known for overseeing the Western Defense Command during World War II and for his role in advocating the internment of Japanese Americans.
  • C. Mordecai T. Endicott
    Mordecai T. Endicott was a U.S. Navy civil engineer and Rear Admiral who served as the first Civil Engineer Corps Chief and contributed to early planning efforts for the Panama Canal.
  • D. James S. Wadsworth
    James S. Wadsworth was a 19th-century American military officer and political figure, notably a Union general in the Civil War.
  • E. William F. Connell
    William F. Connell was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Boston College to name its nursing school in his honor.
  • 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_69d6aa5cbabc8190973e683950d89faf completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6fe54465081909640f6d7a2314fcb completed April 9, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69dbb70f67c88190980f362fcea9d800 completed April 12, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69dbbbe3d9dc819088f85d41ef66ab29 completed April 12, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69dbc58a5ef481908e67fff6686fb506 completed April 12, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:13 p.m.