Triple

T15593468
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thornton, New Hampshire E374807 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Matthew Thornton
Matthew Thornton was an Irish-born American physician, statesman, and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire.
E1166660 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: Matthew Thornton | Statement: [Thornton, New Hampshire, namedAfter, Matthew Thornton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Thornton
Context triple: [Thornton, New Hampshire, namedAfter, Matthew Thornton]
  • A. Richard Caswell
    Richard Caswell was an American Revolutionary leader who became the first governor of the state of North Carolina and played a key role in its early government.
  • B. Joseph L. Galloway
    Joseph L. Galloway was an American war correspondent and author best known for his frontline reporting during the Vietnam War and co-authoring the book "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young."
  • C. Benjamin Chew
    Benjamin Chew was an influential 18th-century American lawyer, jurist, and chief justice of colonial Pennsylvania, prominent in legal and political affairs before and during the American Revolution.
  • D. William Ellery
    William Ellery was an American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island.
  • E. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • 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: Matthew Thornton
Triple: [Thornton, New Hampshire, namedAfter, Matthew Thornton]
Generated description
Matthew Thornton was an Irish-born American physician, statesman, and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Thornton
Target entity description: Matthew Thornton was an Irish-born American physician, statesman, and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire.
  • A. Richard Caswell
    Richard Caswell was an American Revolutionary leader who became the first governor of the state of North Carolina and played a key role in its early government.
  • B. Joseph L. Galloway
    Joseph L. Galloway was an American war correspondent and author best known for his frontline reporting during the Vietnam War and co-authoring the book "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young."
  • C. Benjamin Chew
    Benjamin Chew was an influential 18th-century American lawyer, jurist, and chief justice of colonial Pennsylvania, prominent in legal and political affairs before and during the American Revolution.
  • D. William Ellery
    William Ellery was an American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island.
  • E. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • 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_69d85cce25008190b13b52745fbd719b completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e5e43d48190a8fd367f13f1c7e1 completed April 16, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff56c7db58819089cb488fb3ea96cd completed May 9, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff58687e4c8190a4054c4d5419a76a completed May 9, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff58d92218819085877be120fdcc01 completed May 9, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:12 a.m.