Triple

T1551620
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Fire Company E33103 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Hopkinson
Thomas Hopkinson was an 18th-century American lawyer, public official, and civic leader in Philadelphia known for his involvement in early colonial institutions and scientific circles.
E188430 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: Thomas Hopkinson | Statement: [Union Fire Company, foundedBy, Thomas Hopkinson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Hopkinson
Context triple: [Union Fire Company, foundedBy, Thomas Hopkinson]
  • A. E. E. Rittenhouse
    E. E. Rittenhouse was an American public health advocate and organizer best known for helping establish what became the American Cancer Society in the early 20th century.
  • B. Charles Thomson
    Charles Thomson was an American patriot and political leader best known for serving as the long-time secretary of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
  • C. Robert Morris
    Robert Morris was a Founding Father of the United States and its chief financier during the American Revolution, playing a crucial role in funding the Continental Army and shaping the new nation's economic foundations.
  • D. Robert Morris
    Robert Morris was a professional basketball coach best known for leading the Providence Steamrollers in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA.
  • E. John Jeffries
    John Jeffries was an 18th-century American-born physician and Loyalist who later became a pioneering balloonist and early meteorologist.
  • 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: Thomas Hopkinson
Triple: [Union Fire Company, foundedBy, Thomas Hopkinson]
Generated description
Thomas Hopkinson was an 18th-century American lawyer, public official, and civic leader in Philadelphia known for his involvement in early colonial institutions and scientific circles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Hopkinson
Target entity description: Thomas Hopkinson was an 18th-century American lawyer, public official, and civic leader in Philadelphia known for his involvement in early colonial institutions and scientific circles.
  • A. E. E. Rittenhouse
    E. E. Rittenhouse was an American public health advocate and organizer best known for helping establish what became the American Cancer Society in the early 20th century.
  • B. Charles Thomson
    Charles Thomson was an American patriot and political leader best known for serving as the long-time secretary of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
  • C. Robert Morris
    Robert Morris was a Founding Father of the United States and its chief financier during the American Revolution, playing a crucial role in funding the Continental Army and shaping the new nation's economic foundations.
  • D. Robert Morris
    Robert Morris was a professional basketball coach best known for leading the Providence Steamrollers in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA.
  • E. John Jeffries
    John Jeffries was an 18th-century American-born physician and Loyalist who later became a pioneering balloonist and early meteorologist.
  • 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_69a885ee6db8819099502bc5ce8af881 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9086aed94819085c8194b4127c278 completed March 5, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad68079e448190b71c2cd194abeb86 completed March 8, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad68b5e934819086a8383b4f0b8ab5 completed March 8, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad691acb8481908687f640e9f632ea completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.