Triple

T4253874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oliver Wolcott Jr. E95923 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object Gideon Tomlinson (as Governor of Connecticut)
Gideon Tomlinson was an early 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of Connecticut and later as a U.S. Senator.
 E426944 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: Gideon Tomlinson (as Governor of Connecticut) | Statement: [Oliver Wolcott Jr., succeededBy, Gideon Tomlinson (as Governor of Connecticut)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gideon Tomlinson (as Governor of Connecticut)
Context triple: [Oliver Wolcott Jr., succeededBy, Gideon Tomlinson (as Governor of Connecticut)]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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: Gideon Tomlinson (as Governor of Connecticut)
Triple: [Oliver Wolcott Jr., succeededBy, Gideon Tomlinson (as Governor of Connecticut)]
Generated description
Gideon Tomlinson was an early 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of Connecticut and later as a U.S. Senator.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gideon Tomlinson (as Governor of Connecticut)
Target entity description: Gideon Tomlinson was an early 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of Connecticut and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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_69b5b78422a88190a67921ee38638ac8 completed March 14, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5bb4d7b8c8190910525c855c83b83 completed March 14, 2026, 7:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5bbba644881908f2f3be9dda7042b completed March 14, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:06 p.m.