Triple

T14312959
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howland E354877 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Henry J. Howland
Henry J. Howland was an American lawyer and judge who served as a justice of the New York Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E1113293 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: Henry J. Howland | Statement: [Howland, hasNotableBearer, Henry J. Howland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry J. Howland
Context triple: [Howland, hasNotableBearer, Henry J. Howland]
  • A. Amos G. Throop
    Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
  • B. William Howland
    William Howland was a 19th-century American seafarer after whom the remote Pacific territory Howland Island was named.
  • C. Henry Howland
    Henry Howland was an early English settler in Plymouth Colony and ancestor of a prominent New England family in colonial America.
  • D. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • E. Samuel F. Hersey
    Samuel F. Hersey was a 19th-century American lumber baron, philanthropist, and politician from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • 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: Henry J. Howland
Triple: [Howland, hasNotableBearer, Henry J. Howland]
Generated description
Henry J. Howland was an American lawyer and judge who served as a justice of the New York Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry J. Howland
Target entity description: Henry J. Howland was an American lawyer and judge who served as a justice of the New York Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Amos G. Throop
    Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
  • B. William Howland
    William Howland was a 19th-century American seafarer after whom the remote Pacific territory Howland Island was named.
  • C. Henry Howland
    Henry Howland was an early English settler in Plymouth Colony and ancestor of a prominent New England family in colonial America.
  • D. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • E. Samuel F. Hersey
    Samuel F. Hersey was a 19th-century American lumber baron, philanthropist, and politician from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • 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_69de85b49e5481909b9ffab2d922e284 completed April 14, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fde15f2cd8819085f949fa5122af2a completed May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fde33636088190905a1b4514a29d82 completed May 8, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fde39e14788190838af5f6ac1e3ba7 completed May 8, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:12 a.m.