Triple

T14312939
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howland E354877 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Richard Howland
Richard Howland is a notable individual who shares the surname Howland, though specific widely recognized biographical details about him are not clearly established.
E1090810 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: Richard Howland | Statement: [Howland, hasNotableBearer, Richard Howland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Howland
Context triple: [Howland, hasNotableBearer, Richard Howland]
  • A. Roger Howe
    Roger Howe is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in representation theory and harmonic analysis, particularly Howe duality.
  • B. Benjamin Hallowell
    Benjamin Hallowell was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer and one of Admiral Horatio Nelson’s “Band of Brothers,” noted for his service in key battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • C. Amasa Delano
    Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
  • D. Joseph Howland
    Joseph Howland was a 19th-century American Civil War officer, politician, and philanthropist from New York.
  • E. Joseph Howland
    Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
  • 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: Richard Howland
Triple: [Howland, hasNotableBearer, Richard Howland]
Generated description
Richard Howland is a notable individual who shares the surname Howland, though specific widely recognized biographical details about him are not clearly established.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Howland
Target entity description: Richard Howland is a notable individual who shares the surname Howland, though specific widely recognized biographical details about him are not clearly established.
  • A. Roger Howe
    Roger Howe is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in representation theory and harmonic analysis, particularly Howe duality.
  • B. Benjamin Hallowell
    Benjamin Hallowell was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer and one of Admiral Horatio Nelson’s “Band of Brothers,” noted for his service in key battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • C. Amasa Delano
    Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
  • D. Joseph Howland
    Joseph Howland was a 19th-century American Civil War officer, politician, and philanthropist from New York.
  • E. Joseph Howland
    Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
  • 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_69d8278ed42c8190b9f882dcce611347 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de85b386d0819087d14f3ce84a1997 completed April 14, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd3d31e3b08190b310d38b6075fb96 completed May 8, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd3da6f0648190876dd86dd51e72cc completed May 8, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd3e30868481908b55b368ab45c7fb completed May 8, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:12 a.m.