Triple

T3181591
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert Treat Paine E66598 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Thomas Paine (merchant)
Thomas Paine (merchant) was a colonial-era American trader and the father of Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
E333252 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: Thomas Paine (merchant) | Statement: [Robert Treat Paine, father, Thomas Paine (merchant)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Paine (merchant)
Context triple: [Robert Treat Paine, father, Thomas Paine (merchant)]
  • A. James Paine
    James Paine was an 18th-century English architect known for his elegant Palladian-style country houses and bridges.
  • B. Josiah Franklin
    Josiah Franklin was an English-born Boston candle and soap maker best known as the father of American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
  • C. James Biddle
    James Biddle was a United States Navy officer and diplomat in the early 19th century, noted for his service in the War of 1812 and for negotiating treaties with Asian nations.
  • D. Ephraim Bull
    Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
  • E. Stephen Wilkinson
    Stephen Wilkinson is a British conductor and choral director known for his influential work with the BBC Northern Singers and contributions to choral music in the 20th century.
  • 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: Thomas Paine (merchant)
Triple: [Robert Treat Paine, father, Thomas Paine (merchant)]
Generated description
Thomas Paine (merchant) was a colonial-era American trader and the father of Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Paine (merchant)
Target entity description: Thomas Paine (merchant) was a colonial-era American trader and the father of Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
  • A. James Paine
    James Paine was an 18th-century English architect known for his elegant Palladian-style country houses and bridges.
  • B. Josiah Franklin
    Josiah Franklin was an English-born Boston candle and soap maker best known as the father of American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
  • C. James Biddle
    James Biddle was a United States Navy officer and diplomat in the early 19th century, noted for his service in the War of 1812 and for negotiating treaties with Asian nations.
  • D. Ephraim Bull
    Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
  • E. Stephen Wilkinson
    Stephen Wilkinson is a British conductor and choral director known for his influential work with the BBC Northern Singers and contributions to choral music in the 20th century.
  • 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_69ad8587c1bc8190a2595f2c22ee1001 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada6bd07888190b680eace8290d821 completed March 8, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b235fd1688819080fa1d73d2b233ba completed March 12, 2026, 3:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b236e61ae88190a76b942c6cddff41 completed March 12, 2026, 3:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b23770ed4c8190b5d929cc95a286a0 completed March 12, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.