Triple

T4408154
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Collector of the Port of New York E94783 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Hiram Barney
Hiram Barney was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and Republican political figure who served in a key federal customs post in New York during the Civil War era.
E437979 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: Hiram Barney | Statement: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Hiram Barney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiram Barney
Context triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Hiram Barney]
  • A. Peter Cooper
    Peter Cooper was a 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
  • B. Leffert L. Buck
    Leffert L. Buck was an American civil engineer known for his pioneering work in long-span bridge design at the turn of the 20th century.
  • C. Thomas N. Downing
    Thomas N. Downing was an American Democratic congressman from Virginia known for his role in initiating and leading congressional investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • D. Thomas A. Scott
    Thomas A. Scott was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive and businessman who played a key logistical role for the Union during the Civil War.
  • E. Ogden Livingston Mills
    Ogden Livingston Mills was an American financier and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Herbert Hoover during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • 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: Hiram Barney
Triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Hiram Barney]
Generated description
Hiram Barney was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and Republican political figure who served in a key federal customs post in New York during the Civil War era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiram Barney
Target entity description: Hiram Barney was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and Republican political figure who served in a key federal customs post in New York during the Civil War era.
  • A. Peter Cooper
    Peter Cooper was a 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
  • B. Leffert L. Buck
    Leffert L. Buck was an American civil engineer known for his pioneering work in long-span bridge design at the turn of the 20th century.
  • C. Thomas N. Downing
    Thomas N. Downing was an American Democratic congressman from Virginia known for his role in initiating and leading congressional investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • D. Thomas A. Scott
    Thomas A. Scott was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive and businessman who played a key logistical role for the Union during the Civil War.
  • E. Ogden Livingston Mills
    Ogden Livingston Mills was an American financier and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Herbert Hoover during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • 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_69b34539638c8190abfea3eb29425210 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3548cb92881908a3f98466da8e0a2 completed March 13, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f609f7f881909d12735f4028a108 completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f689da008190ae5bd42af1f95bfa completed March 15, 2026, midnight
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5f72f5dac819081f98d835c467aca completed March 15, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:28 p.m.