Triple

T1419030
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herkimer County E31982 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Nicholas Herkimer
Nicholas Herkimer was an American Revolutionary War militia general from New York, best known for leading colonial forces at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.
E172325 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: Nicholas Herkimer | Statement: [Herkimer County, namedAfter, Nicholas Herkimer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Herkimer
Context triple: [Herkimer County, namedAfter, Nicholas Herkimer]
  • A. Johann Jost Herkimer
    Johann Jost Herkimer was an early German-American settler and landowner in colonial New York whose prominence led to a county being named in his honor.
  • B. Samuel Arnold
    Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • C. Abraham Van Brunt
    Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • D. Israel Putnam
    Israel Putnam was a prominent American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill and his role in the early Continental Army.
  • E. Thomas Preston
    Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
  • 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: Nicholas Herkimer
Triple: [Herkimer County, namedAfter, Nicholas Herkimer]
Generated description
Nicholas Herkimer was an American Revolutionary War militia general from New York, best known for leading colonial forces at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Herkimer
Target entity description: Nicholas Herkimer was an American Revolutionary War militia general from New York, best known for leading colonial forces at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.
  • A. Johann Jost Herkimer
    Johann Jost Herkimer was an early German-American settler and landowner in colonial New York whose prominence led to a county being named in his honor.
  • B. Samuel Arnold
    Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • C. Abraham Van Brunt
    Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • D. Israel Putnam
    Israel Putnam was a prominent American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill and his role in the early Continental Army.
  • E. Thomas Preston
    Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
  • 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_69a49919a994819086528951bc224775 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c40631e881909ddf81a2eb84af1c completed March 1, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad232534f48190b1392c2fba119b7c completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad244de35881908f37bf10fa9cf1c9 completed March 8, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad24aea1988190af6e847cc1842520 completed March 8, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.