Triple
T20726621
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay |
E509450
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entity |
| Predicate | editor |
P1954
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FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Hutchinson |
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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: Thomas Hutchinson | Statement: [A Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, editor, Thomas Hutchinson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Hutchinson Context triple: [A Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, editor, Thomas Hutchinson]
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A.
Thomas Hutchinson
chosen
Thomas Hutchinson was a Loyalist colonial governor and historian of Massachusetts whose staunch support for British authority made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
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B.
Thomas Pownall
Thomas Pownall was an 18th-century British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and played a significant role in early American colonial politics.
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C.
Thomas Clap
Thomas Clap was an 18th-century American clergyman and academic who significantly shaped Yale College’s curriculum, governance, and early development as its long-serving president.
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D.
Governor Simon Bradstreet
Governor Simon Bradstreet was a prominent colonial administrator and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under its original charter, known for his moderate leadership and marriage to poet Anne Bradstreet.
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E.
James Otis Sr.
James Otis Sr. was a prominent colonial Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and judge who played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary New England public life.
- 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_69e0b4c4cc648190b45fda6e2b20af56 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c1e8b020819091d5788b90215ead |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:16 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:29 p.m.