Triple

T2908431
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Isaac Royall House E63622 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Isaac Royall Jr.
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
 E311863 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: Isaac Royall Jr. | Statement: [Isaac Royall House, namedAfter, Isaac Royall Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Isaac Royall Jr.
Context triple: [Isaac Royall House, namedAfter, Isaac Royall Jr.]
  • A. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • B. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • C. Nathaniel Mather
    Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
  • D. Richard Mather
    Richard Mather was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and early New England clergyman influential in shaping colonial religious life.
  • E. Samuel Sewall
    Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
  • 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: Isaac Royall Jr.
Triple: [Isaac Royall House, namedAfter, Isaac Royall Jr.]
Generated description
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Isaac Royall Jr.
Target entity description: Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
  • A. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • B. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • C. Nathaniel Mather
    Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
  • D. Richard Mather
    Richard Mather was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and early New England clergyman influential in shaping colonial religious life.
  • E. Samuel Sewall
    Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
  • 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_69ab4c44ab448190b9411324e8a1fc1d completed March 6, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe0d1dcf881909b3ae58d7cdfd9cd completed March 7, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0865c719c8190aacafe236b02c844 completed March 10, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0dcd67c848190b1428a4a7a568ad6 completed March 11, 2026, 3:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0dd3eb5248190aee95803673c75a4 completed March 11, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:11 p.m.