Triple

T1111163
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Progressive Era E8085 entity
Predicate significantFigure P428 FINISHED
Object Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens was a prominent American muckraking journalist whose exposés of political corruption in city governments made him a leading voice of the Progressive Era reform movement.
E143834 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: Lincoln Steffens | Statement: [Progressive Era, significantFigure, Lincoln Steffens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lincoln Steffens
Context triple: [Progressive Era, significantFigure, Lincoln Steffens]
  • A. Henry Jarvis Raymond
    Henry Jarvis Raymond was a 19th-century American journalist and politician best known as a co-founder and early editor of The New York Times.
  • B. Joseph Pulitzer
    Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and journalist whose innovations in mass media and commitment to public service journalism led to the establishment of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes.
  • C. Ida Tarbell
    Ida Tarbell was a pioneering American investigative journalist and muckraker best known for her exposé of Standard Oil, which helped spur major Progressive Era reforms in business and government.
  • D. Walter Lippmann
    Walter Lippmann was an influential American writer, political commentator, and public intellectual whose work on public opinion and democracy shaped 20th-century political thought and journalism.
  • E. Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair was an American novelist and social reformer best known for his muckraking works like "The Jungle," which exposed industrial and social injustices in the early 20th century United States.
  • 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: Lincoln Steffens
Triple: [Progressive Era, significantFigure, Lincoln Steffens]
Generated description
Lincoln Steffens was a prominent American muckraking journalist whose exposés of political corruption in city governments made him a leading voice of the Progressive Era reform movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lincoln Steffens
Target entity description: Lincoln Steffens was a prominent American muckraking journalist whose exposés of political corruption in city governments made him a leading voice of the Progressive Era reform movement.
  • A. Henry Jarvis Raymond
    Henry Jarvis Raymond was a 19th-century American journalist and politician best known as a co-founder and early editor of The New York Times.
  • B. Joseph Pulitzer
    Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and journalist whose innovations in mass media and commitment to public service journalism led to the establishment of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes.
  • C. Ida Tarbell
    Ida Tarbell was a pioneering American investigative journalist and muckraker best known for her exposé of Standard Oil, which helped spur major Progressive Era reforms in business and government.
  • D. Walter Lippmann
    Walter Lippmann was an influential American writer, political commentator, and public intellectual whose work on public opinion and democracy shaped 20th-century political thought and journalism.
  • E. Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair was an American novelist and social reformer best known for his muckraking works like "The Jungle," which exposed industrial and social injustices in the early 20th century United States.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bb7742788190b320aec99e76ca41 completed March 1, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac93b2283881908dde77abbbf864ae completed March 7, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac943de3f0819085dff5ef12f01766 completed March 7, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac95c05ab081909db602d7bea73bf4 completed March 7, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.