Triple

T12639849
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nabby Adams E301864 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Steuben Smith
William Steuben Smith was the son of Nabby Adams and grandson of U.S. President John Adams, belonging to the prominent Adams political family of early American history.
E994497 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 Steuben Smith | Statement: [Nabby Adams, child, William Steuben Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Steuben Smith
Context triple: [Nabby Adams, child, William Steuben Smith]
  • A. Hiram Berdan
    Hiram Berdan was a 19th-century American military officer, engineer, and inventor best known for creating innovative rifle designs and leading elite sharpshooter units during the American Civil War.
  • B. Samuel Livermore
    Samuel Livermore was an American lawyer and politician from New Hampshire who served as a U.S. senator and an early leader in the federal government.
  • C. Henry Elsworth
    Henry Elsworth was a political leader who served as the head of state of Rhodesia, the unrecognized state that declared independence from the United Kingdom in southern Africa during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Samuel Arnold
    Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Johann de Kalb
    Johann de Kalb was a German-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and became a patriot hero after dying from wounds sustained at the Battle of Camden.
  • 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 Steuben Smith
Triple: [Nabby Adams, child, William Steuben Smith]
Generated description
William Steuben Smith was the son of Nabby Adams and grandson of U.S. President John Adams, belonging to the prominent Adams political family of early American history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Steuben Smith
Target entity description: William Steuben Smith was the son of Nabby Adams and grandson of U.S. President John Adams, belonging to the prominent Adams political family of early American history.
  • A. Hiram Berdan
    Hiram Berdan was a 19th-century American military officer, engineer, and inventor best known for creating innovative rifle designs and leading elite sharpshooter units during the American Civil War.
  • B. Samuel Livermore
    Samuel Livermore was an American lawyer and politician from New Hampshire who served as a U.S. senator and an early leader in the federal government.
  • C. Henry Elsworth
    Henry Elsworth was a political leader who served as the head of state of Rhodesia, the unrecognized state that declared independence from the United Kingdom in southern Africa during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Samuel Arnold
    Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Johann de Kalb
    Johann de Kalb was a German-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and became a patriot hero after dying from wounds sustained at the Battle of Camden.
  • 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_69d7bdec9f9c8190b4bac675b7588211 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d961499de08190bdba66ca40b021be completed April 10, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f668754acc8190b5585dbd35387867 completed May 2, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6697d8ac88190b4ead9ce47f3a705 completed May 2, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f66a2fa350819091f12e16d59c2278 completed May 2, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:16 p.m.