Triple

T3725806
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lyman family E81745 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object Theodore Lyman III
Theodore Lyman III was a 19th-century American politician, philanthropist, and mayor of Boston known for his civic reforms and support of social welfare initiatives.
E381673 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: Theodore Lyman III | Statement: [Lyman family, hasNotableMember, Theodore Lyman III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Lyman III
Context triple: [Lyman family, hasNotableMember, Theodore Lyman III]
  • A. James R. Osgood
    James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
  • B. Timothy Dwight IV
    Timothy Dwight IV was an influential American theologian, educator, and author who served as the eighth president of Yale College in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • D. Charles Eliot
    Charles Eliot was a prominent American landscape architect of the late 19th century, known for his influential work in urban park and parkway design around Boston.
  • E. Benjamin Silliman
    Benjamin Silliman was a pioneering American chemist and geologist, one of Yale College’s first science professors, and a key figure in the early development of scientific education in the United States.
  • 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: Theodore Lyman III
Triple: [Lyman family, hasNotableMember, Theodore Lyman III]
Generated description
Theodore Lyman III was a 19th-century American politician, philanthropist, and mayor of Boston known for his civic reforms and support of social welfare initiatives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Lyman III
Target entity description: Theodore Lyman III was a 19th-century American politician, philanthropist, and mayor of Boston known for his civic reforms and support of social welfare initiatives.
  • A. James R. Osgood
    James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
  • B. Timothy Dwight IV
    Timothy Dwight IV was an influential American theologian, educator, and author who served as the eighth president of Yale College in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • D. Charles Eliot
    Charles Eliot was a prominent American landscape architect of the late 19th century, known for his influential work in urban park and parkway design around Boston.
  • E. Benjamin Silliman
    Benjamin Silliman was a pioneering American chemist and geologist, one of Yale College’s first science professors, and a key figure in the early development of scientific education in the United States.
  • 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_69ad8b1b7ef081908d2d381bbf54985a completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcaf669d48190852aaeef70265404 completed March 8, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4ce206cb88190985a727b769e1e12 completed March 14, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4cf1840bc81908a85642430ab5339 completed March 14, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4cf92e9c48190a3d87ba1f90548ec completed March 14, 2026, 3:01 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:34 p.m.