Triple

T1687279
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Mather E36470 entity
Predicate placeOfActivity P1527 FINISHED
Object Colonial Boston
Colonial Boston was a major 17th- and 18th-century New England port and political center that became a focal point of religious life, commerce, and revolutionary activity in British North America.
E191710 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: Colonial Boston | Statement: [Samuel Mather, placeOfActivity, Colonial Boston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonial Boston
Context triple: [Samuel Mather, placeOfActivity, Colonial Boston]
  • A. Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
    Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, located across the Charles River from Boston and serving as an important colonial town in the 17th century.
  • B. Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
    Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, established in 1630 in what is now part of Boston, Massachusetts.
  • C. Boston Common
    Boston Common is a historic central public park in downtown Boston and the oldest city park in the United States.
  • D. Charlestown neighborhood of Boston
    The Charlestown neighborhood of Boston is a historic waterfront district located on a peninsula north of downtown, known for landmarks like the Bunker Hill Monument and the Charlestown Navy Yard.
  • E. Downtown Boston
    Downtown Boston is the city’s historic and commercial core, known for its dense cluster of landmarks, offices, and shopping areas.
  • 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: Colonial Boston
Triple: [Samuel Mather, placeOfActivity, Colonial Boston]
Generated description
Colonial Boston was a major 17th- and 18th-century New England port and political center that became a focal point of religious life, commerce, and revolutionary activity in British North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonial Boston
Target entity description: Colonial Boston was a major 17th- and 18th-century New England port and political center that became a focal point of religious life, commerce, and revolutionary activity in British North America.
  • A. Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
    Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, located across the Charles River from Boston and serving as an important colonial town in the 17th century.
  • B. Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
    Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, established in 1630 in what is now part of Boston, Massachusetts.
  • C. Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
    Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the early Puritan settlements near Boston that became an important town in the early governance and religious life of colonial New England.
  • D. Boston Common
    Boston Common is a historic central public park in downtown Boston and the oldest city park in the United States.
  • E. Charlestown neighborhood of Boston
    The Charlestown neighborhood of Boston is a historic waterfront district located on a peninsula north of downtown, known for landmarks like the Bunker Hill Monument and the Charlestown Navy Yard.
  • 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_69a886151508819084fa7f1ce6e05577 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa6294f5ac819089cf5c2530ec71a0 completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad79901458819098f0be72d9d4a9bb completed March 8, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad81f90e948190b83078523b1cf3f8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad82755910819087aa9940dc1e7495 completed March 8, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.