Triple

T18052963
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Abraham Lincoln: A History E431964 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object John G. Nicolay NE NERFINISHED

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: John G. Nicolay | Statement: [Abraham Lincoln: A History, author, John G. Nicolay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John G. Nicolay
Context triple: [Abraham Lincoln: A History, author, John G. Nicolay]
  • A. John G. Nicolay chosen
    John G. Nicolay was a German-born American political figure and historian best known as Abraham Lincoln’s private secretary and co-author of a seminal multi-volume biography of Lincoln with John Hay.
  • B. Charles P. Adams
    Charles P. Adams was an American educator who established and led the institution that became Grambling State University, helping expand higher education opportunities for African Americans in Louisiana.
  • C. Walter Burr
    Walter Burr is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Burr, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • D. Henry Adams Neely
    Henry Adams Neely was a 19th-century American Episcopal bishop who played a foundational role in establishing and leading the Episcopal Church in Maine.
  • E. Charles Francis Adams Jr.
    Charles Francis Adams Jr. was a 19th-century American Civil War officer, railroad executive, and public intellectual from the prominent Adams political family.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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_69d8b906482481908183315b9ecf9994 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4c0ff580c8190bc3ca04025476255 completed April 19, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:26 a.m.