Triple

T14704883
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McClure's Magazine E345401 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Lincoln Steffens E143834 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Lincoln Steffens | Statement: [McClure's Magazine, editor, Lincoln Steffens]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lincoln Steffens
Context triple: [McClure's Magazine, editor, Lincoln Steffens]
  • A. Lincoln Steffens chosen
    Lincoln Steffens was a prominent American muckraking journalist whose exposés of political corruption in city governments made him a leading voice of the Progressive Era reform movement.
  • B. Herbert L. Matthews
    Herbert L. Matthews was an influential American journalist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, best known for his reporting on revolutionary movements, particularly in Cuba.
  • C. Samuel Sidney McClure
    Samuel Sidney McClure was an influential American publisher and editor best known for founding McClure's Magazine, a leading muckraking periodical of the Progressive Era.
  • D. Joseph Medill
    Joseph Medill was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper editor and publisher who co-owned and led the Chicago Tribune and served as mayor of Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871.
  • E. Herbert Bayard Swope
    Herbert Bayard Swope was a prominent American journalist and editor, best known as the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting and for his influential role in early 20th-century newspaper journalism.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 elicitation completed
NER batch_69deb6086c608190a66c64e23a3e002f ner completed
NED1 batch_69fdfb8221a4819098937018f24a0b44 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.