Triple

T2656122
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boys, be ambitious E54613 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object William S. Clark
William S. Clark was an American educator and agricultural scientist best known in Japan for inspiring students with the motto "Boys, be ambitious" during his tenure at Sapporo Agricultural College in the 19th century.
E286089 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: William S. Clark | Statement: [Boys, be ambitious, author, William S. Clark]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Clark
Context triple: [Boys, be ambitious, author, William S. Clark]
  • A. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • B. John W. Gunnison
    John W. Gunnison was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for surveying routes in the American West before his death during an expedition in Utah.
  • C. Zebulon Pike
    Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
  • D. Joseph Robidoux
    Joseph Robidoux was a 19th-century French-Canadian fur trader and entrepreneur best known for establishing the trading post that grew into the city of St. Joseph, Missouri.
  • E. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
    Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
  • 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: William S. Clark
Triple: [Boys, be ambitious, author, William S. Clark]
Generated description
William S. Clark was an American educator and agricultural scientist best known in Japan for inspiring students with the motto "Boys, be ambitious" during his tenure at Sapporo Agricultural College in the 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Clark
Target entity description: William S. Clark was an American educator and agricultural scientist best known in Japan for inspiring students with the motto "Boys, be ambitious" during his tenure at Sapporo Agricultural College in the 19th century.
  • A. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • B. John W. Gunnison
    John W. Gunnison was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for surveying routes in the American West before his death during an expedition in Utah.
  • C. Zebulon Pike
    Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
  • D. Joseph Robidoux
    Joseph Robidoux was a 19th-century French-Canadian fur trader and entrepreneur best known for establishing the trading post that grew into the city of St. Joseph, Missouri.
  • E. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
    Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
  • 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_69ab49e028948190b97e01d73548b1d9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd94ae2e881909399b3d58159aa29 completed March 7, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af98d325ec819097d7f80a28343687 completed March 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af9942390081909fd17fa20386fed6 completed March 10, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af99af3c8c8190b1342dd4bd5866e2 completed March 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.