Triple

T4297561
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Livingston family E99751 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Robert Livingston the Elder
Robert Livingston the Elder was a 17th-century Scottish-born colonial official and landowner who became a prominent New York patroon and patriarch of the influential Livingston family.
E438640 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: Robert Livingston the Elder | Statement: [Livingston family, foundedBy, Robert Livingston the Elder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Livingston the Elder
Context triple: [Livingston family, foundedBy, Robert Livingston the Elder]
  • A. Robert R. Livingston
    Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
  • B. Philip Livingston
    Philip Livingston was an American merchant and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York.
  • C. Thom Schuyler
    Thom Schuyler is an American country music songwriter and singer best known for penning numerous hits in the 1980s and serving as a prominent figure in Nashville’s songwriting community.
  • D. Jonathan Hasbrouck
    Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
  • E. Stephen Van Rensselaer
    Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • 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: Robert Livingston the Elder
Triple: [Livingston family, foundedBy, Robert Livingston the Elder]
Generated description
Robert Livingston the Elder was a 17th-century Scottish-born colonial official and landowner who became a prominent New York patroon and patriarch of the influential Livingston family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Livingston the Elder
Target entity description: Robert Livingston the Elder was a 17th-century Scottish-born colonial official and landowner who became a prominent New York patroon and patriarch of the influential Livingston family.
  • A. Robert R. Livingston
    Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
  • B. Philip Livingston
    Philip Livingston was an American merchant and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York.
  • C. Thom Schuyler
    Thom Schuyler is an American country music songwriter and singer best known for penning numerous hits in the 1980s and serving as a prominent figure in Nashville’s songwriting community.
  • D. Jonathan Hasbrouck
    Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
  • E. Stephen Van Rensselaer
    Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • 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_69b3455175088190aa79c6e03b86647e completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3509bff808190a86fade7ccfc3611 completed March 12, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f5b965c48190990357f4cb4e30cb completed March 14, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f65e9bec819082c33b0c066cd42b completed March 14, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5fa90f6a48190a27dfeb65f705225 completed March 15, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:08 p.m.