Triple
T1643657
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Otis Jr. |
E35528
|
entity |
| Predicate | parent |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
James Otis Sr.
James Otis Sr. was a prominent colonial Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and judge who played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary New England public life.
|
E190864
|
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 Otis Sr. | Statement: [James Otis Jr., parent, James Otis Sr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Otis Sr. Context triple: [James Otis Jr., parent, James Otis Sr.]
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A.
James Otis Jr.
James Otis Jr. was an influential colonial lawyer and early American revolutionary thinker whose arguments against British taxation helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the American Revolution.
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B.
Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Hutchinson was a Loyalist colonial governor and historian of Massachusetts whose staunch support for British authority made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
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C.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
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D.
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine was an American Founding Father and lawyer best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts.
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E.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
- 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 Otis Sr. Triple: [James Otis Jr., parent, James Otis Sr.]
Generated description
James Otis Sr. was a prominent colonial Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and judge who played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary New England public life.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Otis Sr. Target entity description: James Otis Sr. was a prominent colonial Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and judge who played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary New England public life.
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A.
James Otis Jr.
James Otis Jr. was an influential colonial lawyer and early American revolutionary thinker whose arguments against British taxation helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the American Revolution.
-
B.
Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Hutchinson was a Loyalist colonial governor and historian of Massachusetts whose staunch support for British authority made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
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C.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
-
D.
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine was an American Founding Father and lawyer best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts.
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E.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
- 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_69a88604618c81908b41f6429c431eb6 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aa622e9b08819094960b2329c6e7e6 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 5:12 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad79847cbc8190be99c66424034bce |
completed | March 8, 2026, 1:28 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ad7a1223fc8190b7d62217c17f7517 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 1:30 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ad7b0787c88190a59a815fa808ac6b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 1:35 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.