Triple

T1351016
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oberlin College E28881 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object John Jay Shipherd
John Jay Shipherd was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educational reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College and promoting progressive ideals such as coeducation and abolitionism.
E176059 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 Jay Shipherd | Statement: [Oberlin College, founder, John Jay Shipherd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Jay Shipherd
Context triple: [Oberlin College, founder, John Jay Shipherd]
  • A. John Jay
    John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
  • B. William M. Evarts
    William M. Evarts was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of State who played a key role in major legal and political developments of his era.
  • C. John P. Hale
    John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
  • D. Oliver Ellsworth
    Oliver Ellsworth was an American Founding Father, influential framer of the U.S. Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the United States.
  • E. Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
    Oliver Ellsworth Buckley was an American physicist and former president of Bell Telephone Laboratories known for his influential contributions to telecommunications and condensed matter physics.
  • 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 Jay Shipherd
Triple: [Oberlin College, founder, John Jay Shipherd]
Generated description
John Jay Shipherd was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educational reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College and promoting progressive ideals such as coeducation and abolitionism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Jay Shipherd
Target entity description: John Jay Shipherd was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educational reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College and promoting progressive ideals such as coeducation and abolitionism.
  • A. John Jay
    John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
  • B. William M. Evarts
    William M. Evarts was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of State who played a key role in major legal and political developments of his era.
  • C. John P. Hale
    John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
  • D. Oliver Ellsworth
    Oliver Ellsworth was an American Founding Father, influential framer of the U.S. Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the United States.
  • E. Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
    Oliver Ellsworth Buckley was an American physicist and former president of Bell Telephone Laboratories known for his influential contributions to telecommunications and condensed matter physics.
  • 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_69a498571d248190a0ac9eb02d97097f completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c26b1b4881908ae4b1b2c9b268a0 completed March 1, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad3083a3748190b2404ef5edf90fd7 completed March 8, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad31dcdef0819093276857b247ecea completed March 8, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad32f287008190b66c9e626a0f39f1 completed March 8, 2026, 8:27 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.