Triple

T2251608
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Herndon E49628 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Herndon’s Lincoln
Herndon’s Lincoln is a landmark 19th-century biography of Abraham Lincoln, based on the recollections and research of Lincoln’s longtime law partner William Herndon.
E246673 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: Herndon’s Lincoln | Statement: [William Herndon, notableWork, Herndon’s Lincoln]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herndon’s Lincoln
Context triple: [William Herndon, notableWork, Herndon’s Lincoln]
  • A. Lincoln the Unknown
    "Lincoln the Unknown" is a biographical book by Dale Carnegie that offers an accessible, narrative-driven portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s personal struggles and character development.
  • B. City of Presidents
    City of Presidents is the nickname of Quincy, Massachusetts, a historic New England city best known as the birthplace of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
  • C. The Boy Lincoln
    The Boy Lincoln is a painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts Abraham Lincoln’s humble frontier youth, emphasizing his rise from modest beginnings.
  • D. George Washington Slept Here
    George Washington Slept Here is a 1940 Broadway comedy play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman about a couple’s misadventures restoring a dilapidated country house.
  • E. Lincoln Portrait
    Lincoln Portrait is a 1942 orchestral work with narrator by American composer Aaron Copland that combines symphonic music with spoken excerpts from Abraham Lincoln’s speeches.
  • 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: Herndon’s Lincoln
Triple: [William Herndon, notableWork, Herndon’s Lincoln]
Generated description
Herndon’s Lincoln is a landmark 19th-century biography of Abraham Lincoln, based on the recollections and research of Lincoln’s longtime law partner William Herndon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herndon’s Lincoln
Target entity description: Herndon’s Lincoln is a landmark 19th-century biography of Abraham Lincoln, based on the recollections and research of Lincoln’s longtime law partner William Herndon.
  • A. Lincoln the Unknown
    "Lincoln the Unknown" is a biographical book by Dale Carnegie that offers an accessible, narrative-driven portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s personal struggles and character development.
  • B. City of Presidents
    City of Presidents is the nickname of Quincy, Massachusetts, a historic New England city best known as the birthplace of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
  • C. The Boy Lincoln
    The Boy Lincoln is a painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts Abraham Lincoln’s humble frontier youth, emphasizing his rise from modest beginnings.
  • D. George Washington Slept Here
    George Washington Slept Here is a 1940 Broadway comedy play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman about a couple’s misadventures restoring a dilapidated country house.
  • E. Lincoln Portrait
    Lincoln Portrait is a 1942 orchestral work with narrator by American composer Aaron Copland that combines symphonic music with spoken excerpts from Abraham Lincoln’s speeches.
  • 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_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc11d04688190abc04fac3a1804a9 completed March 7, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1bc424819087b2ce9a6256a180 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6be0d108819085cf8c531d08db65 completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c0fc220819090b254cc20b1bc26 completed March 9, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.