Triple

T12241643
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Caroline Starr Balestier E291745 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Wolcott Balestier
Wolcott Balestier was an American writer and literary agent best known for his collaboration with Rudyard Kipling and his influential role in late 19th-century publishing.
E972285 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: Wolcott Balestier | Statement: [Caroline Starr Balestier, relative, Wolcott Balestier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wolcott Balestier
Context triple: [Caroline Starr Balestier, relative, Wolcott Balestier]
  • A. Roger Wolcott
    Roger Wolcott was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
  • B. Frank Wolcott
    Frank Wolcott was a 19th-century Wyoming cattleman and lawman best known as a leader of the vigilante forces during the Johnson County War.
  • C. Winthrop Ames
    Winthrop Ames was an influential early 20th-century American theater producer and director known for his artistic leadership on Broadway and his efforts to elevate theatrical standards.
  • D. Selden Chapin
    Selden Chapin was an American diplomat and career Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts for the United States during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Samuel Waldo
    Samuel Waldo was an 18th-century American land speculator and military officer whose influence in colonial Maine led to a county being named in his honor.
  • 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: Wolcott Balestier
Triple: [Caroline Starr Balestier, relative, Wolcott Balestier]
Generated description
Wolcott Balestier was an American writer and literary agent best known for his collaboration with Rudyard Kipling and his influential role in late 19th-century publishing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wolcott Balestier
Target entity description: Wolcott Balestier was an American writer and literary agent best known for his collaboration with Rudyard Kipling and his influential role in late 19th-century publishing.
  • A. Roger Wolcott
    Roger Wolcott was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
  • B. Frank Wolcott
    Frank Wolcott was a 19th-century Wyoming cattleman and lawman best known as a leader of the vigilante forces during the Johnson County War.
  • C. Winthrop Ames
    Winthrop Ames was an influential early 20th-century American theater producer and director known for his artistic leadership on Broadway and his efforts to elevate theatrical standards.
  • D. Selden Chapin
    Selden Chapin was an American diplomat and career Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts for the United States during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Samuel Waldo
    Samuel Waldo was an 18th-century American land speculator and military officer whose influence in colonial Maine led to a county being named in his honor.
  • 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_69d6ab67950c8190be08450a06228c4b completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91cb59ce4819099999b8755fb8b98 completed April 10, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60ab5a404819089f9ea868deda10c completed May 2, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60c6211448190af411f1b6f42c4b6 completed May 2, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60d1429f08190b7f3f053044f5a9e completed May 2, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:51 p.m.