Triple

T3810289
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Osgood E93115 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Ebenezer Hazard
Ebenezer Hazard was an early American postmaster and antiquarian who served as the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
E390480 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: Ebenezer Hazard | Statement: [Samuel Osgood, predecessor, Ebenezer Hazard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ebenezer Hazard
Context triple: [Samuel Osgood, predecessor, Ebenezer Hazard]
  • A. Ebenezer Breed
    Ebenezer Breed was a prominent Boston merchant and landowner in the 18th century whose name was given to Breed's Hill, a key site in the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Jack Sheppard
    Jack Sheppard was a notorious early 18th-century English thief and prison-breaker whose daring escapes made him a legendary folk hero.
  • C. William Wilson
    William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Henry Burden
    Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
  • E. Ichabod Washburn
    Ichabod Washburn was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist whose support for practical, technical education was instrumental in the creation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
  • 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: Ebenezer Hazard
Triple: [Samuel Osgood, predecessor, Ebenezer Hazard]
Generated description
Ebenezer Hazard was an early American postmaster and antiquarian who served as the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ebenezer Hazard
Target entity description: Ebenezer Hazard was an early American postmaster and antiquarian who served as the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
  • A. Ebenezer Breed
    Ebenezer Breed was a prominent Boston merchant and landowner in the 18th century whose name was given to Breed's Hill, a key site in the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Jack Sheppard
    Jack Sheppard was a notorious early 18th-century English thief and prison-breaker whose daring escapes made him a legendary folk hero.
  • C. William Wilson
    William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Henry Burden
    Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
  • E. Ichabod Washburn
    Ichabod Washburn was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist whose support for practical, technical education was instrumental in the creation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
  • 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_69aed96a60088190ab1df8390fffc935 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee80e178081908cff71223bbf6c43 completed March 9, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fb33db9c81908b462ee80aaaad34 completed March 14, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fc08d65081908953482b10fa5611 completed March 14, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4fc7d8cf081909c4447818b5363c5 completed March 14, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:16 p.m.