Triple

T2247663
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Horace Mann E49543 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Benjamin Pickman Mann
Benjamin Pickman Mann was the son of American education reformer Horace Mann and a member of the prominent Mann family in 19th-century New England.
E308854 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: Benjamin Pickman Mann | Statement: [Horace Mann, child, Benjamin Pickman Mann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Pickman Mann
Context triple: [Horace Mann, child, Benjamin Pickman Mann]
  • A. James Peck
    James Peck was an American pacifist and civil rights activist known for his courageous involvement in nonviolent protests, including the Freedom Rides challenging racial segregation in the United States.
  • B. Ludlow Ogden Smith
    Ludlow Ogden Smith was an American businessman best known as the first husband of actress Katharine Hepburn.
  • C. Thomas Hudson Jones
    Thomas Hudson Jones was an American sculptor best known for his military monuments and memorials created in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Cushman K. Davis
    Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
  • E. Lewis Cass Judson
    Lewis Cass Judson was an American pioneer and early settler associated with the development of the Pacific Northwest region.
  • 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: Benjamin Pickman Mann
Triple: [Horace Mann, child, Benjamin Pickman Mann]
Generated description
Benjamin Pickman Mann was the son of American education reformer Horace Mann and a member of the prominent Mann family in 19th-century New England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Pickman Mann
Target entity description: Benjamin Pickman Mann was the son of American education reformer Horace Mann and a member of the prominent Mann family in 19th-century New England.
  • A. James Peck
    James Peck was an American pacifist and civil rights activist known for his courageous involvement in nonviolent protests, including the Freedom Rides challenging racial segregation in the United States.
  • B. Ludlow Ogden Smith
    Ludlow Ogden Smith was an American businessman best known as the first husband of actress Katharine Hepburn.
  • C. Thomas Hudson Jones
    Thomas Hudson Jones was an American sculptor best known for his military monuments and memorials created in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Cushman K. Davis
    Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
  • E. Lewis Cass Judson
    Lewis Cass Judson was an American pioneer and early settler associated with the development of the Pacific Northwest region.
  • 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_69a88aa979788190ad6500f1d8eee2fc completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc0ed5c38819080b45ea398fb59f2 completed March 7, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0559265388190b070de8b92c6e95b completed March 10, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b05f7e78e8819095185f170ca26bda completed March 10, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0617a21a881909a0f52268a2494a6 completed March 10, 2026, 6:22 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.