Triple

T3887585
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sewall E92979 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Rufus Sewall
Rufus Sewall is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Sewall surname.
E400906 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: Rufus Sewall | Statement: [Sewall, hasNotableBearer, Rufus Sewall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rufus Sewall
Context triple: [Sewall, hasNotableBearer, Rufus Sewall]
  • A. Peleg Wadsworth
    Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • B. Samuel Whitney
    Samuel Whitney was an 18th-century Concord, Massachusetts resident and militia officer associated with the early events of the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. George W. Perkins
    George W. Perkins was an American financier and philanthropist known for his influential role in Progressive Era reforms and support of major public health and social causes.
  • D. Samuel Waldo
    Samuel Waldo was an 18th-century American land speculator and military officer whose influence in colonial Maine led to a county being named in his honor.
  • E. Joseph Sweetman Ames
    Joseph Sweetman Ames was an American physicist, educator, and longtime Johns Hopkins University president who played a key role in early U.S. aeronautics research and leadership of NACA, NASA’s predecessor.
  • 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: Rufus Sewall
Triple: [Sewall, hasNotableBearer, Rufus Sewall]
Generated description
Rufus Sewall is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Sewall surname.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rufus Sewall
Target entity description: Rufus Sewall is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Sewall surname.
  • A. Peleg Wadsworth
    Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • B. Samuel Whitney
    Samuel Whitney was an 18th-century Concord, Massachusetts resident and militia officer associated with the early events of the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. George W. Perkins
    George W. Perkins was an American financier and philanthropist known for his influential role in Progressive Era reforms and support of major public health and social causes.
  • D. Samuel Waldo
    Samuel Waldo was an 18th-century American land speculator and military officer whose influence in colonial Maine led to a county being named in his honor.
  • E. Joseph Sweetman Ames
    Joseph Sweetman Ames was an American physicist, educator, and longtime Johns Hopkins University president who played a key role in early U.S. aeronautics research and leadership of NACA, NASA’s predecessor.
  • 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_69aed9697de0819087c2559295ff3d12 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeecabe3548190a5cbf9d0af0bcfb6 completed March 9, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b533788a70819089d028cee84a7e87 completed March 14, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b53404294881908a91dced77133b57 completed March 14, 2026, 10:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b53482a40c8190bd62b0bc8df92c0c completed March 14, 2026, 10:12 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.