Triple
T18053042
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John G. Nicolay |
E431965
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John George Nicolay |
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|
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 George Nicolay | Statement: [John G. Nicolay, alsoKnownAs, John George Nicolay]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John George Nicolay Context triple: [John G. Nicolay, alsoKnownAs, John George Nicolay]
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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.
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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.
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C.
Albert Charles Seward
Albert Charles Seward was a British botanist and geologist known for his pioneering work in paleobotany and the study of fossil plants.
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D.
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.
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E.
Anson Burlingame
Anson Burlingame was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and diplomat best known for serving as the United States Minister to China and later leading the Chinese diplomatic mission to the West.
- 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.