Triple

T4174610
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stephen Van Rensselaer E86444 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Catharina Livingston
Catharina Livingston was a member of the prominent Livingston family of colonial New York and the mother of patroon and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
E418452 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: Catharina Livingston | Statement: [Stephen Van Rensselaer, mother, Catharina Livingston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catharina Livingston
Context triple: [Stephen Van Rensselaer, mother, Catharina Livingston]
  • A. Catherine Livingston
    Catherine Livingston was the wife of American jurist and diplomat Henry Wheaton and a member of the prominent Livingston family of New York.
  • B. Elizabeth Ross
    Elizabeth "Betsy" Ross was an American upholsterer and seamstress widely credited in popular lore with sewing one of the first American flags during the Revolutionary War.
  • C. Elizabeth Ross
    Elizabeth Ross was the wife of Robert Ross, a British officer best known for his role in the War of 1812.
  • D. Catherine Littlefield
    Catherine Littlefield was an American Revolutionary-era plantation manager and the wife of General Nathanael Greene, noted for her role in supporting the Continental Army and later being associated with the development of the cotton gin.
  • E. Mary DeWitt
    Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
  • 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: Catharina Livingston
Triple: [Stephen Van Rensselaer, mother, Catharina Livingston]
Generated description
Catharina Livingston was a member of the prominent Livingston family of colonial New York and the mother of patroon and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catharina Livingston
Target entity description: Catharina Livingston was a member of the prominent Livingston family of colonial New York and the mother of patroon and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
  • A. Catherine Livingston
    Catherine Livingston was the wife of American jurist and diplomat Henry Wheaton and a member of the prominent Livingston family of New York.
  • B. Elizabeth Ross
    Elizabeth "Betsy" Ross was an American upholsterer and seamstress widely credited in popular lore with sewing one of the first American flags during the Revolutionary War.
  • C. Elizabeth Ross
    Elizabeth Ross was the wife of Robert Ross, a British officer best known for his role in the War of 1812.
  • D. Catherine Littlefield
    Catherine Littlefield was an American Revolutionary-era plantation manager and the wife of General Nathanael Greene, noted for her role in supporting the Continental Army and later being associated with the development of the cotton gin.
  • E. Mary DeWitt
    Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
  • 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_69aed93de98c8190ad838ce507b77c8a completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af02e9370481908eda048724261c2b completed March 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b57f5428a0819082aaea8950a7c039 completed March 14, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5800ab42c8190a1bc6f84db38f170 completed March 14, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5843d6ac88190804242661d077546 completed March 14, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.