Triple
T17330036
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature |
E420787
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHeldBy |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Samuel Sewall |
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NE ONNED1 |
How this triple was built (2 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: Samuel Sewall | Statement: [Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, officeHeldBy, Samuel Sewall]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Sewall Context triple: [Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, officeHeldBy, Samuel Sewall]
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A.
Samuel Sewall
chosen
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
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B.
Stephen Sewall
Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
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C.
Arthur Sewall
Arthur Sewall was an American shipbuilder, businessman, and politician from Maine who is best known for serving as William Jennings Bryan’s Democratic vice-presidential running mate in the 1896 U.S. presidential election.
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D.
William Brattle Jr.
William Brattle Jr. was a prominent colonial-era landowner and public figure in New England whose influence led to the Vermont town of Brattleboro being named in his honor.
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E.
Isaac Royall Jr.
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d889d3adc881909319f1edb8d2a956 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e439d5c788819092bdc4d3de0ec958 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 2:11 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a019550d3bc8190bda76e83edc81063 |
finalizing | May 11, 2026, 8:37 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:43 a.m.