Triple

T1272973
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harper & Brothers E15750 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Joseph Wesley Harper
Joseph Wesley Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as one of the founding figures of the influential New York publishing house Harper & Brothers.
E159284 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: Joseph Wesley Harper | Statement: [Harper & Brothers, foundedBy, Joseph Wesley Harper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Wesley Harper
Context triple: [Harper & Brothers, foundedBy, Joseph Wesley Harper]
  • A. Charles G. Smith
    Charles G. Smith was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder of the defense and aerospace company Raytheon.
  • B. Joseph Bradford
    Joseph Bradford was a colonial-era New Englander best known as a son of William Bradford, the longtime governor of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower passenger.
  • C. Elisha Whittlesey
    Elisha Whittlesey was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Ohio who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and later held key federal financial oversight roles.
  • D. Charles Reed Bishop
    Charles Reed Bishop was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist in Hawaii, best known for his influential role in the Hawaiian Kingdom and for establishing major educational and cultural institutions there.
  • E. Henry Lyman Morehouse
    Henry Lyman Morehouse was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and educator whose advocacy for African American higher education led to a prominent historically Black college 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: Joseph Wesley Harper
Triple: [Harper & Brothers, foundedBy, Joseph Wesley Harper]
Generated description
Joseph Wesley Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as one of the founding figures of the influential New York publishing house Harper & Brothers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Wesley Harper
Target entity description: Joseph Wesley Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as one of the founding figures of the influential New York publishing house Harper & Brothers.
  • A. Charles G. Smith
    Charles G. Smith was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder of the defense and aerospace company Raytheon.
  • B. Joseph Bradford
    Joseph Bradford was a colonial-era New Englander best known as a son of William Bradford, the longtime governor of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower passenger.
  • C. Elisha Whittlesey
    Elisha Whittlesey was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Ohio who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and later held key federal financial oversight roles.
  • D. Charles Reed Bishop
    Charles Reed Bishop was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist in Hawaii, best known for his influential role in the Hawaiian Kingdom and for establishing major educational and cultural institutions there.
  • E. Henry Lyman Morehouse
    Henry Lyman Morehouse was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and educator whose advocacy for African American higher education led to a prominent historically Black college 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_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_69acde0ccff4819092948c249e0cb39b completed March 8, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acde6b92bc819081bc5c1aae64d981 completed March 8, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acded2e6a48190af7f135a0a4d8588 completed March 8, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.