Triple

T14946339
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Handasyd Perkins E372671 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object James Perkins
James Perkins was an American merchant and philanthropist from the prominent Perkins family of Boston, active in trade and civic affairs in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
E1134542 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: James Perkins | Statement: [Thomas Handasyd Perkins, sibling, James Perkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Perkins
Context triple: [Thomas Handasyd Perkins, sibling, James Perkins]
  • A. Charles Coleman
    Charles Coleman was an Australian-born character actor known for his frequent roles as butlers and valets in numerous Hollywood films during the early to mid-20th century.
  • B. Fletcher Joseph Perry
    Fletcher Joseph Perry, better known as Joe Perry, was a Hall of Fame NFL fullback renowned for his speed and as a pioneering African American star with the San Francisco 49ers in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • C. William Pritchard
    William Pritchard is a Canadian municipal politician known for serving as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • D. Edward McPherson
    Edward McPherson was a 19th-century American politician and journalist best known for serving multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as Clerk of the House.
  • E. Joseph Flavelle
    Joseph Flavelle was a prominent Canadian businessman and philanthropist who became one of Toronto’s leading meat packers and a key figure in national economic and charitable affairs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: James Perkins
Triple: [Thomas Handasyd Perkins, sibling, James Perkins]
Generated description
James Perkins was an American merchant and philanthropist from the prominent Perkins family of Boston, active in trade and civic affairs in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Perkins
Target entity description: James Perkins was an American merchant and philanthropist from the prominent Perkins family of Boston, active in trade and civic affairs in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • A. Charles Coleman
    Charles Coleman was an Australian-born character actor known for his frequent roles as butlers and valets in numerous Hollywood films during the early to mid-20th century.
  • B. Fletcher Joseph Perry
    Fletcher Joseph Perry, better known as Joe Perry, was a Hall of Fame NFL fullback renowned for his speed and as a pioneering African American star with the San Francisco 49ers in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • C. William Pritchard
    William Pritchard is a Canadian municipal politician known for serving as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • D. Edward McPherson
    Edward McPherson was a 19th-century American politician and journalist best known for serving multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as Clerk of the House.
  • E. Joseph Flavelle
    Joseph Flavelle was a prominent Canadian businessman and philanthropist who became one of Toronto’s leading meat packers and a key figure in national economic and charitable affairs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d85cca979481908747d2a81eba1cea completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded68e35c481908e47cd68441c5115 completed April 15, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fea5a8b3708190be7c35a05fd08a52 completed May 9, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fea694090c8190a449725dcdd3a37b completed May 9, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fea76e2ff8819099acea30c49bd5ed completed May 9, 2026, 3:18 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:39 a.m.