Triple
T10758524
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles |
E253762
|
entity |
| Predicate | publisher |
P29
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Michael Sparkes
Michael Sparkes was a 17th-century London publisher known for issuing Captain John Smith’s influential colonial chronicle "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles."
|
E882856
|
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: Michael Sparkes | Statement: [The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, publisher, Michael Sparkes]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Sparkes Context triple: [The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, publisher, Michael Sparkes]
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A.
William Sparks
William Sparks is an artist best known for creating the work titled "The Cascades."
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B.
Mark Lucraft
Mark Lucraft is a senior British judge who serves in one of the most prominent judicial roles in the City of London.
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C.
Sam Spence
Sam Spence was an American composer best known for his dramatic, orchestral music scores that defined the sound of NFL highlight films and sports broadcasting in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Martin Spies
Martin Spies is a relatively obscure individual whose primary public mention appears to be as a namesake in reference data, with no widely documented achievements or roles.
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E.
Jonathan Speirs
Jonathan Speirs was a renowned Scottish architectural lighting designer known for co-founding influential lighting design practices and shaping the illumination of landmark buildings worldwide.
- 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: Michael Sparkes Triple: [The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, publisher, Michael Sparkes]
Generated description
Michael Sparkes was a 17th-century London publisher known for issuing Captain John Smith’s influential colonial chronicle "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Sparkes Target entity description: Michael Sparkes was a 17th-century London publisher known for issuing Captain John Smith’s influential colonial chronicle "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles."
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A.
William Sparks
William Sparks is an artist best known for creating the work titled "The Cascades."
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B.
Mark Lucraft
Mark Lucraft is a senior British judge who serves in one of the most prominent judicial roles in the City of London.
-
C.
Sam Spence
Sam Spence was an American composer best known for his dramatic, orchestral music scores that defined the sound of NFL highlight films and sports broadcasting in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Martin Spies
Martin Spies is a relatively obscure individual whose primary public mention appears to be as a namesake in reference data, with no widely documented achievements or roles.
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E.
Jonathan Speirs
Jonathan Speirs was a renowned Scottish architectural lighting designer known for co-founding influential lighting design practices and shaping the illumination of landmark buildings worldwide.
- 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_69d6aa5f54f4819082d0bbcb6f8797e6 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d72ea107a48190b6b92bb0df03e517 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 4:44 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69dbdbc3780c819092337924e2ae90f8 |
completed | April 12, 2026, 5:52 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69dd4367104c8190b83a7877be011b11 |
completed | April 13, 2026, 7:26 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69de01eae1bc819092dcd48328eea943 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 8:59 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:15 p.m.