Triple

T12167608
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Thacher School E289874 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Sherman Day Thacher
Sherman Day Thacher was an American educator who founded The Thacher School, a renowned independent boarding school in Ojai, California.
 E964701 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: Sherman Day Thacher | Statement: [The Thacher School, foundedBy, Sherman Day Thacher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sherman Day Thacher
Context triple: [The Thacher School, foundedBy, Sherman Day Thacher]
  • A. Russell Thacher
    Russell Thacher was an American film producer and writer best known for his work on the dystopian science fiction film "Soylent Green."
  • B. Stilson Hutchins
    Stilson Hutchins was an American newspaper publisher best known as the founder of The Washington Post.
  • C. John Boyd Thacher
    John Boyd Thacher was an American politician, historian, and author who served as mayor of Albany, New York, and was known for his works on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
  • D. Enos T. Throop
    Enos T. Throop was an American politician who served as the 10th governor of New York from 1829 to 1833.
  • E. Edgar A. Joralemon
    Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
  • 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: Sherman Day Thacher
Triple: [The Thacher School, foundedBy, Sherman Day Thacher]
Generated description
Sherman Day Thacher was an American educator who founded The Thacher School, a renowned independent boarding school in Ojai, California.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sherman Day Thacher
Target entity description: Sherman Day Thacher was an American educator who founded The Thacher School, a renowned independent boarding school in Ojai, California.
  • A. Russell Thacher
    Russell Thacher was an American film producer and writer best known for his work on the dystopian science fiction film "Soylent Green."
  • B. Stilson Hutchins
    Stilson Hutchins was an American newspaper publisher best known as the founder of The Washington Post.
  • C. John Boyd Thacher
    John Boyd Thacher was an American politician, historian, and author who served as mayor of Albany, New York, and was known for his works on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
  • D. Enos T. Throop
    Enos T. Throop was an American politician who served as the 10th governor of New York from 1829 to 1833.
  • E. Edgar A. Joralemon
    Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
  • 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_69d6ab4d6c00819095a9a7c35de83cfb completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915d85c088190a74fb7590877659b completed April 10, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f6a45568819090662cd3547c9253 completed May 2, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f5ff826ea08190a6780351e4b927ac completed May 2, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6018b4088819092b8b97089068fae completed May 2, 2026, 1:52 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.