Triple

T4408158
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Collector of the Port of New York E94783 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence
Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served as mayor of New York City and later held prominent federal appointments.
E437980 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: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence | Statement: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence
Context triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence]
  • A. Clarence Fahnestock
    Clarence Fahnestock was a New York physician and outdoorsman whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
  • B. Ogden Goelet
    Ogden Goelet was a wealthy 19th-century American financier and prominent member of New York high society, known for his vast real estate holdings and opulent lifestyle.
  • C. Herbert H. Bateman
    Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
  • D. Franklyn Laws Hutton
    Franklyn Laws Hutton was an American investment banker and co-founder of the brokerage firm E.F. Hutton & Co., best known as the father of heiress Barbara Hutton.
  • E. Godfrey Dewey
    Godfrey Dewey was an American organizer and winter sports advocate best known for directing the planning and execution of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
  • 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: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence
Triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence]
Generated description
Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served as mayor of New York City and later held prominent federal appointments.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence
Target entity description: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served as mayor of New York City and later held prominent federal appointments.
  • A. Clarence Fahnestock
    Clarence Fahnestock was a New York physician and outdoorsman whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
  • B. Ogden Goelet
    Ogden Goelet was a wealthy 19th-century American financier and prominent member of New York high society, known for his vast real estate holdings and opulent lifestyle.
  • C. Herbert H. Bateman
    Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
  • D. Franklyn Laws Hutton
    Franklyn Laws Hutton was an American investment banker and co-founder of the brokerage firm E.F. Hutton & Co., best known as the father of heiress Barbara Hutton.
  • E. Godfrey Dewey
    Godfrey Dewey was an American organizer and winter sports advocate best known for directing the planning and execution of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
  • 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.