Triple

T1272558
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clinton Hart Merriam E15740 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Clinton Levi Merriam
Clinton Levi Merriam was a 19th-century American politician and businessman who served as a U.S. Representative from New York.
 E182136 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: Clinton Levi Merriam | Statement: [Clinton Hart Merriam, father, Clinton Levi Merriam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Clinton Levi Merriam
Context triple: [Clinton Hart Merriam, father, Clinton Levi Merriam]
  • A. Frank Merriam
    Frank Merriam was an American Republican politician who served as the 28th governor of California during the 1930s, overseeing the state through the Great Depression and significant labor unrest.
  • B. John Davis
    John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • C. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. Harry Fielding Reid
    Harry Fielding Reid was an American geophysicist best known for formulating the elastic rebound theory that explains the mechanics of earthquakes.
  • 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: Clinton Levi Merriam
Triple: [Clinton Hart Merriam, father, Clinton Levi Merriam]
Generated description
Clinton Levi Merriam was a 19th-century American politician and businessman who served as a U.S. Representative from New York.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Clinton Levi Merriam
Target entity description: Clinton Levi Merriam was a 19th-century American politician and businessman who served as a U.S. Representative from New York.
  • A. Frank Merriam
    Frank Merriam was an American Republican politician who served as the 28th governor of California during the 1930s, overseeing the state through the Great Depression and significant labor unrest.
  • B. John Davis
    John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • C. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. Harry Fielding Reid
    Harry Fielding Reid was an American geophysicist best known for formulating the elastic rebound theory that explains the mechanics of earthquakes.
  • 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_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c06c033081909bc594157abaf5bb completed March 1, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad51996dc08190afecb40095e3d3e2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad521ac9a88190978b9ed3e3d14d98 completed March 8, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad52bfdbec81908f7240c46ce11888 completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.