Triple

T1656647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward W. Morley E35813 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Josiah Parsons Cooke
Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
E210927 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: Josiah Parsons Cooke | Statement: [Edward W. Morley, doctoralAdvisor, Josiah Parsons Cooke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josiah Parsons Cooke
Context triple: [Edward W. Morley, doctoralAdvisor, Josiah Parsons Cooke]
  • A. James S. Sherman
    James S. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912.
  • B. Thomas C. Kinkaid
    Thomas C. Kinkaid was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who led major Allied naval operations in the Pacific Theater.
  • C. James Clark McReynolds
    James Clark McReynolds was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1914–1941) known for his conservative views and opposition to many New Deal programs.
  • D. Charles Devens
    Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
  • E. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • 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: Josiah Parsons Cooke
Triple: [Edward W. Morley, doctoralAdvisor, Josiah Parsons Cooke]
Generated description
Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josiah Parsons Cooke
Target entity description: Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
  • A. James S. Sherman
    James S. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912.
  • B. Thomas C. Kinkaid
    Thomas C. Kinkaid was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who led major Allied naval operations in the Pacific Theater.
  • C. James Clark McReynolds
    James Clark McReynolds was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1914–1941) known for his conservative views and opposition to many New Deal programs.
  • D. Charles Devens
    Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
  • E. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • 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_69a88606aa808190aa0b421b4271f220 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb4535180819088e3bdaa591dcdbd completed March 7, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69addf308fe4819093ac42f637929a5e completed March 8, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ade359738c81909a7e3763365bc562 completed March 8, 2026, 9 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ade45e97888190aadc0dfbd80256bb completed March 8, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.