Triple

T1158907
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Ambassador to Japan E24449 entity
Predicate inauguralHolder P5161 FINISHED
Object Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
E158258 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: Townsend Harris | Statement: [United States Ambassador to Japan, inauguralHolder, Townsend Harris]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Townsend Harris
Context triple: [United States Ambassador to Japan, inauguralHolder, Townsend Harris]
  • A. William H. Melville
    William H. Melville was a notable figure in the field recognized by the Melville Medal, an award established in his honor for distinguished contributions.
  • B. William Rockhill Nelson
    William Rockhill Nelson was an American newspaper publisher and civic leader in Kansas City whose philanthropy and art patronage led to the creation of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
  • C. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • D. Isaac Hull Adams
    Isaac Hull Adams was a 19th-century member of the prominent Adams family of Massachusetts, descended from the American presidential Adams line.
  • E. Isaac G. Perry
    Isaac G. Perry was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for his extensive work on public buildings and armories throughout New York State.
  • 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: Townsend Harris
Triple: [United States Ambassador to Japan, inauguralHolder, Townsend Harris]
Generated description
Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Townsend Harris
Target entity description: Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
  • A. William H. Melville
    William H. Melville was a notable figure in the field recognized by the Melville Medal, an award established in his honor for distinguished contributions.
  • B. William Rockhill Nelson
    William Rockhill Nelson was an American newspaper publisher and civic leader in Kansas City whose philanthropy and art patronage led to the creation of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
  • C. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • D. Isaac Hull Adams
    Isaac Hull Adams was a 19th-century member of the prominent Adams family of Massachusetts, descended from the American presidential Adams line.
  • E. Isaac G. Perry
    Isaac G. Perry was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for his extensive work on public buildings and armories throughout New York State.
  • 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_69a494060e148190abb42f971242c197 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bcad47a08190895769611798f67f completed March 1, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd46d2f748190997c662f7c29e990 completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd6a03b70819096bdf7ec3b447756 completed March 8, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd71971448190940136b8a44040be completed March 8, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.