Triple

T1470166
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Laurens E27115 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object John Laurens
John Laurens was an American Revolutionary War officer and abolitionist known for his close association with George Washington and his efforts to recruit enslaved people to fight for their freedom.
E174042 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 Laurens | Statement: [Henry Laurens, child, John Laurens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Laurens
Context triple: [Henry Laurens, child, John Laurens]
  • A. Henry Laurens
    Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
  • B. Johann de Kalb
    Johann de Kalb was a German-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and became a patriot hero after dying from wounds sustained at the Battle of Camden.
  • C. Nathanael Greene
    Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
  • D. Benjamin Lincoln
    Benjamin Lincoln was an American Revolutionary War general who served in the Continental Army and later as the first United States Secretary at War.
  • 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: John Laurens
Triple: [Henry Laurens, child, John Laurens]
Generated description
John Laurens was an American Revolutionary War officer and abolitionist known for his close association with George Washington and his efforts to recruit enslaved people to fight for their freedom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Laurens
Target entity description: John Laurens was an American Revolutionary War officer and abolitionist known for his close association with George Washington and his efforts to recruit enslaved people to fight for their freedom.
  • A. Henry Laurens
    Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
  • B. Johann de Kalb
    Johann de Kalb was a German-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and became a patriot hero after dying from wounds sustained at the Battle of Camden.
  • C. Nathanael Greene
    Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
  • D. Benjamin Lincoln
    Benjamin Lincoln was an American Revolutionary War general who served in the Continental Army and later as the first United States Secretary at War.
  • 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_69a496d25d6881909dbd84f86d763992 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5d9dd4c8190ba840a9255cd1293 completed March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad2940a44c8190967a62781cca0306 completed March 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad2a1742d48190a82c1fc8c81d5c21 completed March 8, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2a9e50888190bab83785f11135ea completed March 8, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.