Triple

T4202219
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph Dudley E86092 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object William Tailer
William Tailer was an early 18th-century colonial politician who briefly served as acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
E420789 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: William Tailer | Statement: [Joseph Dudley, successor, William Tailer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Tailer
Context triple: [Joseph Dudley, successor, William Tailer]
  • A. Edward Bury
    Edward Bury was a 19th-century English locomotive engineer known for designing and supplying early steam engines for pioneering railways, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
  • B. Richard Greatrex
    Richard Greatrex is a British cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-nominated work on the film "Shakespeare in Love."
  • C. Geoffrey Unsworth
    Geoffrey Unsworth was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his visually rich work on numerous classic films of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Robert Taffy
    Robert Taffy was the architect responsible for designing Mapo Hall, a historic colonial-era civic building in Ibadan, Nigeria.
  • E. Edward Saxon
    Edward Saxon is an American film producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the psychological thriller "The Silence of the Lambs."
  • 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: William Tailer
Triple: [Joseph Dudley, successor, William Tailer]
Generated description
William Tailer was an early 18th-century colonial politician who briefly served as acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Tailer
Target entity description: William Tailer was an early 18th-century colonial politician who briefly served as acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
  • A. Edward Bury
    Edward Bury was a 19th-century English locomotive engineer known for designing and supplying early steam engines for pioneering railways, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
  • B. Richard Greatrex
    Richard Greatrex is a British cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-nominated work on the film "Shakespeare in Love."
  • C. Geoffrey Unsworth
    Geoffrey Unsworth was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his visually rich work on numerous classic films of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Robert Taffy
    Robert Taffy was the architect responsible for designing Mapo Hall, a historic colonial-era civic building in Ibadan, Nigeria.
  • E. Edward Saxon
    Edward Saxon is an American film producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the psychological thriller "The Silence of the Lambs."
  • 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_69aed93b89f48190a31f6d57c760e42f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af037f1de4819088d6bf544317a694 completed March 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b58a173a78819094915f63c8411602 completed March 14, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58e1e7bc08190b75486c74953f609 completed March 14, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58e7a208481909056b6fba4597bf4 completed March 14, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:49 p.m.