Triple

T16896676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Cotton Smith E424321 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Cotton Mather Smith
Cotton Mather Smith was an American Congregational minister and influential religious figure in colonial and early post-Revolutionary Connecticut.
E1241770 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: Cotton Mather Smith | Statement: [John Cotton Smith, father, Cotton Mather Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cotton Mather Smith
Context triple: [John Cotton Smith, father, Cotton Mather Smith]
  • A. Elisha Williams
    Elisha Williams was an 18th-century American clergyman, lawyer, and educator who served as a prominent early leader of Yale College.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Samuel Hopkins
    Samuel Hopkins was an 18th-century American Congregationalist theologian known for developing a rigorous Calvinist system later called Hopkinsianism, which became a central strand of New England theology.
  • D. Samuel Hopkins
    Samuel Hopkins was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky statesman after whom the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is named.
  • E. Rufus Sewall
    Rufus Sewall is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Sewall surname.
  • 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: Cotton Mather Smith
Triple: [John Cotton Smith, father, Cotton Mather Smith]
Generated description
Cotton Mather Smith was an American Congregational minister and influential religious figure in colonial and early post-Revolutionary Connecticut.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cotton Mather Smith
Target entity description: Cotton Mather Smith was an American Congregational minister and influential religious figure in colonial and early post-Revolutionary Connecticut.
  • A. Elisha Williams
    Elisha Williams was an 18th-century American clergyman, lawyer, and educator who served as a prominent early leader of Yale College.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Samuel Hopkins
    Samuel Hopkins was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky statesman after whom the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is named.
  • D. Samuel Hopkins
    Samuel Hopkins was an 18th-century American Congregationalist theologian known for developing a rigorous Calvinist system later called Hopkinsianism, which became a central strand of New England theology.
  • E. Rufus Sewall
    Rufus Sewall is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Sewall surname.
  • 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_69d889da3e8c8190a2b118f383f0beac completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3c8d880208190ad2b2c8616b54ea3 completed April 18, 2026, 6:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00cfcd0db8819080d415a18b3435e2 completed May 10, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d0e1650881909eacc90cf99787f4 completed May 10, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d1e024e88190bfcb50b42f37949b completed May 10, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:29 a.m.