Triple

T15419719
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Witherspoon E369340 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object John Witherspoon
John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and Founding Father of the United States who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and signed the Declaration of Independence.
E15879 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 Witherspoon | Statement: [John Witherspoon, name, John Witherspoon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Witherspoon
Context triple: [John Witherspoon, name, John Witherspoon]
  • A. John Witherspoon
    John Witherspoon was an American comedian and character actor best known for his eccentric, scene-stealing roles in films like the Friday series and numerous television comedies.
  • B. John Witherspoon
    John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and statesman who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and became a prominent political leader during the American Revolution.
  • C. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • D. Samuel Barron
    Samuel Barron was a United States Navy officer who played a prominent command role in early 19th-century Mediterranean operations against the Barbary States.
  • E. John Hall
    John Hall is the protagonist of the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift," a drifter who takes a job at a decrepit textile mill where he confronts deadly supernatural threats.
  • 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 Witherspoon
Triple: [John Witherspoon, name, John Witherspoon]
Generated description
John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and Founding Father of the United States who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and signed the Declaration of Independence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Witherspoon
Target entity description: John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and Founding Father of the United States who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and signed the Declaration of Independence.
  • A. John Witherspoon chosen
    John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and statesman who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and became a prominent political leader during the American Revolution.
  • B. John Witherspoon
    John Witherspoon was an American comedian and character actor best known for his eccentric, scene-stealing roles in films like the Friday series and numerous television comedies.
  • C. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • D. Samuel Barron
    Samuel Barron was a United States Navy officer who played a prominent command role in early 19th-century Mediterranean operations against the Barbary States.
  • E. John Hall
    John Hall is the protagonist of the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift," a drifter who takes a job at a decrepit textile mill where he confronts deadly supernatural threats.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d85a1849f48190bf898068b2806fae completed April 10, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03ebce4f48190ba282ecb4fb2f6fa completed April 16, 2026, 1:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff1a7adb848190836fb972bc8744f1 completed May 9, 2026, 11:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff1bc3aa2c8190b61d21fa78682ea1 completed May 9, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff1cbccab48190b9e19b5a09324d8c completed May 9, 2026, 11:38 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:20 a.m.