Triple

T4253873
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oliver Wolcott Jr. E95923 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object John Cotton Smith (as Governor of Connecticut)
John Cotton Smith was an early 19th-century American lawyer, Federalist politician, and the last Federalist governor of Connecticut, known for his conservative leadership during the post-War of 1812 era.
 E424321 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: John Cotton Smith (as Governor of Connecticut) | Statement: [Oliver Wolcott Jr., precededBy, John Cotton Smith (as Governor of Connecticut)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Cotton Smith (as Governor of Connecticut)
Context triple: [Oliver Wolcott Jr., precededBy, John Cotton Smith (as Governor of Connecticut)]
  • A. David Dudley Field II
    David Dudley Field II was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer and legal reformer best known for drafting influential civil procedure codes that shaped modern legal practice in the United States and abroad.
  • B. Governor G. Mennen Williams
    Governor G. Mennen Williams was a long-serving mid-20th-century Democratic governor of Michigan known for his progressive policies and influential role in the state’s infrastructure and civil rights advancements.
  • C. Governor William Phips
    Governor William Phips was the colonial governor of Massachusetts best known for overseeing and ultimately halting the Salem witch trials in 1692.
  • D. John O. Pastore Jr.
    John O. Pastore Jr. was an American public figure whose prominence led to his interment at Parklawn Memorial Park.
  • E. Simeon E. Baldwin
    Simeon E. Baldwin was an American jurist, legal scholar, and governor of Connecticut who played a key role in shaping legal education and public life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: John Cotton Smith (as Governor of Connecticut)
Triple: [Oliver Wolcott Jr., precededBy, John Cotton Smith (as Governor of Connecticut)]
Generated description
John Cotton Smith was an early 19th-century American lawyer, Federalist politician, and the last Federalist governor of Connecticut, known for his conservative leadership during the post-War of 1812 era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Cotton Smith (as Governor of Connecticut)
Target entity description: John Cotton Smith was an early 19th-century American lawyer, Federalist politician, and the last Federalist governor of Connecticut, known for his conservative leadership during the post-War of 1812 era.
  • A. David Dudley Field II
    David Dudley Field II was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer and legal reformer best known for drafting influential civil procedure codes that shaped modern legal practice in the United States and abroad.
  • B. Governor G. Mennen Williams
    Governor G. Mennen Williams was a long-serving mid-20th-century Democratic governor of Michigan known for his progressive policies and influential role in the state’s infrastructure and civil rights advancements.
  • C. Governor William Phips
    Governor William Phips was the colonial governor of Massachusetts best known for overseeing and ultimately halting the Salem witch trials in 1692.
  • D. John O. Pastore Jr.
    John O. Pastore Jr. was an American public figure whose prominence led to his interment at Parklawn Memorial Park.
  • E. Simeon E. Baldwin
    Simeon E. Baldwin was an American jurist, legal scholar, and governor of Connecticut who played a key role in shaping legal education and public life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69b3453f759881909b91f01a1e82c036 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34ebe6fbc8190a89269b478b3f435 completed March 12, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5a887703c81909a40f23f83154b8c completed March 14, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5a8ffd4508190b33117d3fc963b3d completed March 14, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5a9754d5c8190b1ab724a4758c22a completed March 14, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:06 p.m.