Triple

T172394
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Discovery (Henry Hudson's ship) E3503 entity
Predicate voyageLeader P884 FINISHED
Object Thomas Button
Thomas Button was a 17th-century Welsh naval officer and explorer noted for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
E24690 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: Thomas Button | Statement: [Discovery (Henry Hudson's ship), voyageLeader, Thomas Button]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Button
Context triple: [Discovery (Henry Hudson's ship), voyageLeader, Thomas Button]
  • A. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • B. Henry Bacon
    Henry Bacon was an American architect best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. John Endecott
    John Endecott was an early English colonial leader and Puritan magistrate who served multiple terms as a strict and influential governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century.
  • D. Thomas Dudley
    Thomas Dudley was a prominent early Puritan leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 17th-century New England.
  • E. Woodes Rogers
    Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
  • 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: Thomas Button
Triple: [Discovery (Henry Hudson's ship), voyageLeader, Thomas Button]
Generated description
Thomas Button was a 17th-century Welsh naval officer and explorer noted for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Button
Target entity description: Thomas Button was a 17th-century Welsh naval officer and explorer noted for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • A. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • B. Henry Bacon
    Henry Bacon was an American architect best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. John Endecott
    John Endecott was an early English colonial leader and Puritan magistrate who served multiple terms as a strict and influential governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century.
  • D. Thomas Dudley
    Thomas Dudley was a prominent early Puritan leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 17th-century New England.
  • E. Woodes Rogers
    Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
  • 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_69a25374990081909766d30c79a18e0e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25bafd5808190a0a0cb2b21ce007f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a31159301481909a3521339d2338fa completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3138da9888190848b490ccb5ddf15 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a313f9e0f881909e2b03bcd5f19876 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:39 a.m.