Triple

T14023460
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lawrence Scientific School E337393 entity
Predicate notableFaculty P141 FINISHED
Object Eben Norton Horsford
Eben Norton Horsford was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his work in food chemistry and the development of baking powder.
E1075228 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: Eben Norton Horsford | Statement: [Lawrence Scientific School, notableFaculty, Eben Norton Horsford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eben Norton Horsford
Context triple: [Lawrence Scientific School, notableFaculty, Eben Norton Horsford]
  • A. Dan Halsted
    Dan Halsted is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the sports drama "Any Given Sunday."
  • B. Theodore Herman Jewett
    Theodore Herman Jewett was a 19th-century New England physician best known as the father of American regionalist author Sarah Orne Jewett.
  • C. Charles A. Towne
    Charles A. Towne was an American lawyer and politician active around the turn of the 20th century, known for his involvement with the Populist and Democratic parties and his service in the U.S. Congress.
  • D. Arthur Dehon Little
    Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and pioneering management consultant who co-founded one of the world’s first consulting firms, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
  • E. George Chesebro
    George Chesebro was an American character actor best known for his prolific appearances in silent films and low-budget Westerns during the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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: Eben Norton Horsford
Triple: [Lawrence Scientific School, notableFaculty, Eben Norton Horsford]
Generated description
Eben Norton Horsford was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his work in food chemistry and the development of baking powder.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eben Norton Horsford
Target entity description: Eben Norton Horsford was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his work in food chemistry and the development of baking powder.
  • A. Dan Halsted
    Dan Halsted is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the sports drama "Any Given Sunday."
  • B. Theodore Herman Jewett
    Theodore Herman Jewett was a 19th-century New England physician best known as the father of American regionalist author Sarah Orne Jewett.
  • C. Charles A. Towne
    Charles A. Towne was an American lawyer and politician active around the turn of the 20th century, known for his involvement with the Populist and Democratic parties and his service in the U.S. Congress.
  • D. Arthur Dehon Little
    Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and pioneering management consultant who co-founded one of the world’s first consulting firms, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
  • E. George Chesebro
    George Chesebro was an American character actor best known for his prolific appearances in silent films and low-budget Westerns during the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d81c6543a48190bd5ba93d7419e797 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2f3d87b88190b038d334f4965369 completed April 14, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbc33170ec8190b0ffe41a567a590b completed May 6, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fbc6d1048081908fb2e798cbc9902f completed May 6, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fbc76610008190bd3c7f357666c8db completed May 6, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:19 p.m.