Triple
T16493715
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Purple Cow (Williams College mascot) |
E400628
|
entity |
| Predicate | relatedTo |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ephraim Williams |
E166056
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Ephraim Williams | Statement: [Purple Cow (Williams College mascot), relatedTo, Ephraim Williams]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ephraim Williams Context triple: [Purple Cow (Williams College mascot), relatedTo, Ephraim Williams]
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A.
Ephraim Williams
chosen
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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B.
Ephraim Hart
Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Shubael Gorham
Shubael Gorham was a member of the prominent Gorham family of colonial New England, known through his connections to early Plymouth Colony descendants such as Desire Howland.
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D.
Ephraim Bull
Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
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E.
Hosea Ballou
Hosea Ballou was a prominent 19th-century American Universalist theologian and minister whose writings and preaching helped shape and popularize Universalist doctrine in the United States.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d883813098819084f5409539723b59 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e32e3189c8819097e6ba62f24b1f6c |
completed | April 18, 2026, 7:09 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a005828849481909e95c5822ed6f74d |
completed | May 10, 2026, 10:04 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.