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]
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A.
Elisha Williams
Elisha Williams was an 18th-century American clergyman, lawyer, and educator who served as a prominent early leader of Yale College.
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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.
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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.
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D.
Samuel Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky statesman after whom the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is named.
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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.
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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.