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]
  • A. William Sparks
    William Sparks is an artist best known for creating the work titled "The Cascades."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • A. William Sparks
    William Sparks is an artist best known for creating the work titled "The Cascades."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.