Triple

T1272972
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harper & Brothers E15750 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Harper
John Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential New York publishing house that became Harper & Brothers.
E164503 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: John Harper | Statement: [Harper & Brothers, foundedBy, John Harper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Harper
Context triple: [Harper & Brothers, foundedBy, John Harper]
  • A. Joe Harper
    Joe Harper is a minor character in Mark Twain's classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as one of Tom's close friends and fellow mischief-makers in the fictional town of St. Petersburg.
  • B. Robert Harper
    Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
  • C. Guy Mountfort
    Guy Mountfort was a British advertising executive, author, and conservationist best known for co-founding the World Wildlife Fund and helping pioneer modern international wildlife conservation efforts.
  • D. Fletcher Harper
    Fletcher Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential New York publishing house Harper & Brothers.
  • E. John Dawson
    John Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and fusion research.
  • 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: John Harper
Triple: [Harper & Brothers, foundedBy, John Harper]
Generated description
John Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential New York publishing house that became Harper & Brothers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Harper
Target entity description: John Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential New York publishing house that became Harper & Brothers.
  • A. Joe Harper
    Joe Harper is a minor character in Mark Twain's classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as one of Tom's close friends and fellow mischief-makers in the fictional town of St. Petersburg.
  • B. Robert Harper
    Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
  • C. Guy Mountfort
    Guy Mountfort was a British advertising executive, author, and conservationist best known for co-founding the World Wildlife Fund and helping pioneer modern international wildlife conservation efforts.
  • D. Fletcher Harper chosen
    Fletcher Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential New York publishing house Harper & Brothers.
  • E. John Dawson
    John Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and fusion research.
  • F. None of above.

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_69adf3ab00888190afc7c54d9b89ae3b completed March 8, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf452ab488190b5d57e3b04159408 completed March 8, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf4bdb6dc8190964e5e78abfb8e40 completed March 8, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.