Triple

T11393604
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shippen family E269908 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object William Shippen Sr.
William Shippen Sr. was an American physician and civic leader in colonial Philadelphia, known for his prominent role in early American medicine and politics.
E923237 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: William Shippen Sr. | Statement: [Shippen family, hasNotableMember, William Shippen Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Shippen Sr.
Context triple: [Shippen family, hasNotableMember, William Shippen Sr.]
  • A. Edward Shippen Willing
    Edward Shippen Willing was a prominent 19th-century American banker and member of a distinguished Philadelphia family.
  • B. Benjamin Franklin Bache
    Benjamin Franklin Bache was an American journalist and newspaper editor, known for founding the Philadelphia Aurora and for his fierce criticism of Federalist leaders in the early United States.
  • C. Edward Shippen IV
    Edward Shippen IV was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, judge, and colonial official who later became Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
  • D. Thomas Penn
    Thomas Penn was an 18th-century proprietor of Pennsylvania and son of William Penn, known for overseeing and profiting from the colony’s expansion and land policies.
  • E. Francis Nash
    Francis Nash was an American Revolutionary War brigadier general from North Carolina who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Germantown and later honored as the namesake of Nashville, Tennessee.
  • 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: William Shippen Sr.
Triple: [Shippen family, hasNotableMember, William Shippen Sr.]
Generated description
William Shippen Sr. was an American physician and civic leader in colonial Philadelphia, known for his prominent role in early American medicine and politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Shippen Sr.
Target entity description: William Shippen Sr. was an American physician and civic leader in colonial Philadelphia, known for his prominent role in early American medicine and politics.
  • A. Edward Shippen Willing
    Edward Shippen Willing was a prominent 19th-century American banker and member of a distinguished Philadelphia family.
  • B. Benjamin Franklin Bache
    Benjamin Franklin Bache was an American journalist and newspaper editor, known for founding the Philadelphia Aurora and for his fierce criticism of Federalist leaders in the early United States.
  • C. Edward Shippen IV
    Edward Shippen IV was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, judge, and colonial official who later became Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
  • D. Thomas Penn
    Thomas Penn was an 18th-century proprietor of Pennsylvania and son of William Penn, known for overseeing and profiting from the colony’s expansion and land policies.
  • E. Francis Nash
    Francis Nash was an American Revolutionary War brigadier general from North Carolina who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Germantown and later honored as the namesake of Nashville, Tennessee.
  • 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_69d6aacdbc6c8190af6dc3d5f5d22836 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8001796f48190822526f52e3f0337 completed April 9, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e58cb43b988190876af2de4be49628 completed April 20, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5932d3cb88190807acdcdc3aaa9fc completed April 20, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e59a0ab7e081908cb8761c4f82c664 completed April 20, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.