Triple

T1821984
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Billings Brown E40558 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Samuel Blatchford
Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
E211050 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: Samuel Blatchford | Statement: [Henry Billings Brown, predecessor, Samuel Blatchford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Blatchford
Context triple: [Henry Billings Brown, predecessor, Samuel Blatchford]
  • A. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • B. Ephraim Williams
    Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
  • C. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • D. Warden Samuel Norton
    Warden Samuel Norton is the corrupt, Bible-quoting prison administrator who serves as the primary antagonist in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
  • E. Samuel Miller
    Samuel Miller was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian, educator, and church historian who helped shape Reformed theological education in the United States.
  • 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: Samuel Blatchford
Triple: [Henry Billings Brown, predecessor, Samuel Blatchford]
Generated description
Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Blatchford
Target entity description: Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
  • A. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • B. Ephraim Williams
    Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
  • C. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • D. Warden Samuel Norton
    Warden Samuel Norton is the corrupt, Bible-quoting prison administrator who serves as the primary antagonist in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
  • E. Samuel Miller
    Samuel Miller was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian, educator, and church historian who helped shape Reformed theological education in the United States.
  • 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_69a8864526c081908a3a4d74f689e2c5 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa662b910c8190b1746730ee09015a completed March 6, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adead39c208190aa3aaf793c7e3224 completed March 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adeb1049dc8190bbf9aa6ad5ad1ad9 completed March 8, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adeb8d6c948190a28963faa04b6883 completed March 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.