Triple

T421465
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Trinity College E8111 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Church Brownell
Thomas Church Brownell was a 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and educator best known for establishing Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
E156773 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: Thomas Church Brownell | Statement: [Trinity College, founder, Thomas Church Brownell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Church Brownell
Context triple: [Trinity College, founder, Thomas Church Brownell]
  • A. Henry J. F. Brown
    Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
  • B. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • C. John C. Brown
    John C. Brown is a political figure who served as Governor of California and resided in the California Governor's Mansion during his tenure.
  • D. Henry Lyman Morehouse
    Henry Lyman Morehouse was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and educator whose advocacy for African American higher education led to a prominent historically Black college being named in his honor.
  • E. Cornelius Johnson
    Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
  • 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: Thomas Church Brownell
Triple: [Trinity College, founder, Thomas Church Brownell]
Generated description
Thomas Church Brownell was a 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and educator best known for establishing Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Church Brownell
Target entity description: Thomas Church Brownell was a 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and educator best known for establishing Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
  • A. Henry J. F. Brown
    Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
  • B. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • C. John C. Brown
    John C. Brown is a political figure who served as Governor of California and resided in the California Governor's Mansion during his tenure.
  • D. Henry Lyman Morehouse
    Henry Lyman Morehouse was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and educator whose advocacy for African American higher education led to a prominent historically Black college being named in his honor.
  • E. Cornelius Johnson
    Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
  • 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_69a2e7f1d1bc81909cf2dc9754a3c334 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eec0e9dc81908c08b209ce5278ef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acce4b94d08190b7747b0b6d61e3e1 completed March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69accf3931bc81908e38755e2d024270 completed March 8, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69accfb8acfc8190bba379d8bb114c29 completed March 8, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.