Triple

T182551
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Magnalia Christi Americana E3907 entity
Predicate firstEditionPublisher P1760 FINISHED
Object Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
 E107292 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: Thomas Parkhurst | Statement: [Magnalia Christi Americana, firstEditionPublisher, Thomas Parkhurst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Parkhurst
Context triple: [Magnalia Christi Americana, firstEditionPublisher, Thomas Parkhurst]
  • A. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • B. George Denison
    George Denison was a notable individual after whom the city of Denison, Texas, was named, likely recognized for his influence or contributions significant to the area's history or development.
  • C. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • D. James Warren Sever
    James Warren Sever was a Harvard University alumnus and benefactor after whom the historic Sever Hall in Harvard Yard is named.
  • E. Robert Hodgen
    Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
  • 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: Thomas Parkhurst
Triple: [Magnalia Christi Americana, firstEditionPublisher, Thomas Parkhurst]
Generated description
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Parkhurst
Target entity description: Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
  • A. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • B. George Denison
    George Denison was a notable individual after whom the city of Denison, Texas, was named, likely recognized for his influence or contributions significant to the area's history or development.
  • C. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • D. James Warren Sever
    James Warren Sever was a Harvard University alumnus and benefactor after whom the historic Sever Hall in Harvard Yard is named.
  • E. Robert Hodgen
    Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
  • 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_69a25497e2f08190a040f8c6e1842643 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2592516748190a85ae58eec191f14 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7c705090c81909590d7fe2ff37fef completed March 4, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c896d1c481909493a1bc4e6266e3 completed March 4, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7c918ebbc81908ad58bb8045543e6 completed March 4, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:40 a.m.