Triple

T17323567
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Franklin Benjamin Sanborn E420625 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Personality of Thoreau
The Personality of Thoreau is a biographical and critical study that portrays the character, life, and philosophical outlook of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
E1262967 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: The Personality of Thoreau | Statement: [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, notableWork, The Personality of Thoreau]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Personality of Thoreau
Context triple: [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, notableWork, The Personality of Thoreau]
  • A. Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873)
    Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873) is a biographical work by Ellery Channing that portrays the life, character, and philosophy of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
  • B. Lectures on Ralph Waldo Emerson and transcendentalism
    "Lectures on Ralph Waldo Emerson and transcendentalism" is a series of talks by Edward Waldo Emerson that interpret and contextualize his father Ralph Waldo Emerson’s philosophy and the broader American Transcendentalist movement.
  • C. The Transcendentalist
    "The Transcendentalist" is an 1842 lecture-essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that articulates the core philosophy of American Transcendentalism, emphasizing individual intuition, spiritual insight, and self-reliance over institutional authority.
  • D. Emerson’s collected essays
    Emerson’s collected essays is a volume gathering Ralph Waldo Emerson’s influential philosophical and literary writings, including key transcendentalist works such as “Self-Reliance.”
  • E. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
    The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a play that dramatizes Henry David Thoreau’s act of civil disobedience and his philosophical opposition to the Mexican-American War.
  • 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: The Personality of Thoreau
Triple: [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, notableWork, The Personality of Thoreau]
Generated description
The Personality of Thoreau is a biographical and critical study that portrays the character, life, and philosophical outlook of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Personality of Thoreau
Target entity description: The Personality of Thoreau is a biographical and critical study that portrays the character, life, and philosophical outlook of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
  • A. Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873)
    Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873) is a biographical work by Ellery Channing that portrays the life, character, and philosophy of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
  • B. Lectures on Ralph Waldo Emerson and transcendentalism
    "Lectures on Ralph Waldo Emerson and transcendentalism" is a series of talks by Edward Waldo Emerson that interpret and contextualize his father Ralph Waldo Emerson’s philosophy and the broader American Transcendentalist movement.
  • C. The Transcendentalist
    "The Transcendentalist" is an 1842 lecture-essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that articulates the core philosophy of American Transcendentalism, emphasizing individual intuition, spiritual insight, and self-reliance over institutional authority.
  • D. Emerson’s collected essays
    Emerson’s collected essays is a volume gathering Ralph Waldo Emerson’s influential philosophical and literary writings, including key transcendentalist works such as “Self-Reliance.”
  • E. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
    The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a play that dramatizes Henry David Thoreau’s act of civil disobedience and his philosophical opposition to the Mexican-American War.
  • 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.