Triple

T17323563
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Franklin Benjamin Sanborn E420625 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Life and Letters of John Brown
Life and Letters of John Brown is a biographical work that chronicles the life, character, and correspondence of the American abolitionist John Brown.
E1262965 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: Life and Letters of John Brown | Statement: [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, notableWork, Life and Letters of John Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life and Letters of John Brown
Context triple: [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, notableWork, Life and Letters of John Brown]
  • A. His Day Is Marching On: A Biography of John Brown
    "His Day Is Marching On: A Biography of John Brown" is a biographical work by Shirley Graham Du Bois that chronicles the life, radical abolitionism, and enduring legacy of John Brown in the struggle against slavery in the United States.
  • B. A Voice from Harper's Ferry
    A Voice from Harper's Ferry is a firsthand memoir and historical account by Osborne Perry Anderson, the only Black survivor of John Brown’s 1859 raid, offering a rare African American perspective on the abolitionist uprising at Harpers Ferry.
  • C. John Brown Going to His Hanging
    "John Brown Going to His Hanging" is a 1942 painting by African American artist Horace Pippin that depicts the abolitionist John Brown on his way to execution, reflecting themes of racial injustice and moral conviction.
  • D. The Life of William Lloyd Garrison
    The Life of William Lloyd Garrison is a multi-volume biographical work chronicling the life, abolitionist activism, and reform efforts of American anti-slavery leader William Lloyd Garrison.
  • E. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee
    "A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee" is the 1834 autobiographical memoir in which American frontiersman and politician Davy Crockett recounts his life, adventures, and political career.
  • 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: Life and Letters of John Brown
Triple: [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, notableWork, Life and Letters of John Brown]
Generated description
Life and Letters of John Brown is a biographical work that chronicles the life, character, and correspondence of the American abolitionist John Brown.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life and Letters of John Brown
Target entity description: Life and Letters of John Brown is a biographical work that chronicles the life, character, and correspondence of the American abolitionist John Brown.
  • A. His Day Is Marching On: A Biography of John Brown
    "His Day Is Marching On: A Biography of John Brown" is a biographical work by Shirley Graham Du Bois that chronicles the life, radical abolitionism, and enduring legacy of John Brown in the struggle against slavery in the United States.
  • B. A Voice from Harper's Ferry
    A Voice from Harper's Ferry is a firsthand memoir and historical account by Osborne Perry Anderson, the only Black survivor of John Brown’s 1859 raid, offering a rare African American perspective on the abolitionist uprising at Harpers Ferry.
  • C. John Brown Going to His Hanging
    "John Brown Going to His Hanging" is a 1942 painting by African American artist Horace Pippin that depicts the abolitionist John Brown on his way to execution, reflecting themes of racial injustice and moral conviction.
  • D. The Life of William Lloyd Garrison
    The Life of William Lloyd Garrison is a multi-volume biographical work chronicling the life, abolitionist activism, and reform efforts of American anti-slavery leader William Lloyd Garrison.
  • E. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee
    "A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee" is the 1834 autobiographical memoir in which American frontiersman and politician Davy Crockett recounts his life, adventures, and political career.
  • 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_69d889d22b848190a4663d0b8f8f76e7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e439d0cf2481908a018593ef39fd18 completed April 19, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a018c4a6630819082998cf754e8361f completed May 11, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a018ccb69cc8190b89a1d8edd3987a0 completed May 11, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a018ea5b7b081908f638608f094ad29 completed May 11, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:43 a.m.