Triple

T3849600
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Morton Salt family E85256 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object J. Sterling Morton
J. Sterling Morton was an American politician and environmental advocate best known as the founder of Arbor Day, a holiday dedicated to tree planting and conservation.
E392793 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: J. Sterling Morton | Statement: [Morton Salt family, hasNotableMember, J. Sterling Morton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Sterling Morton
Context triple: [Morton Salt family, hasNotableMember, J. Sterling Morton]
  • A. Ferdinand Peck
    Ferdinand Peck was a prominent Chicago businessman and philanthropist best known for promoting and financing the city’s Auditorium Building as a grand civic and cultural center.
  • B. William Janney
    William Janney was an American film actor active in the late 1920s and 1930s, known for his roles in early sound-era dramas and adventure films.
  • C. Enos M. Barton
    Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
  • D. John B. Denton
    John B. Denton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister, lawyer, and soldier on the Texas frontier who was killed in conflict with Native Americans and later became the namesake of Denton County, Texas.
  • E. Peter A. Sarpy
    Peter A. Sarpy was a 19th-century American fur trader and entrepreneur influential in the early development of the Nebraska Territory.
  • 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: J. Sterling Morton
Triple: [Morton Salt family, hasNotableMember, J. Sterling Morton]
Generated description
J. Sterling Morton was an American politician and environmental advocate best known as the founder of Arbor Day, a holiday dedicated to tree planting and conservation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Sterling Morton
Target entity description: J. Sterling Morton was an American politician and environmental advocate best known as the founder of Arbor Day, a holiday dedicated to tree planting and conservation.
  • A. Ferdinand Peck
    Ferdinand Peck was a prominent Chicago businessman and philanthropist best known for promoting and financing the city’s Auditorium Building as a grand civic and cultural center.
  • B. William Janney
    William Janney was an American film actor active in the late 1920s and 1930s, known for his roles in early sound-era dramas and adventure films.
  • C. Enos M. Barton
    Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
  • D. John B. Denton
    John B. Denton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister, lawyer, and soldier on the Texas frontier who was killed in conflict with Native Americans and later became the namesake of Denton County, Texas.
  • E. Peter A. Sarpy
    Peter A. Sarpy was a 19th-century American fur trader and entrepreneur influential in the early development of the Nebraska Territory.
  • 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_69aed936de1c81908f91bed80f70abb2 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeebcde86081908cf3840ae002acfa completed March 9, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b504172d58819089d19f5cb7b803ec completed March 14, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b504f32da48190a561cc72f0c4e827 completed March 14, 2026, 6:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5064192a48190a0f95dee872437e0 completed March 14, 2026, 6:54 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:19 p.m.