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.