Triple

T4408163
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Collector of the Port of New York E94783 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Samuel Swartwout
Samuel Swartwout was a 19th-century American politician and businessman best known for his role in a major federal embezzlement scandal while serving in the Jackson administration.
E437983 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: Samuel Swartwout | Statement: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Samuel Swartwout]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Swartwout
Context triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Samuel Swartwout]
  • A. Kiliaen van Rensselaer
    Kiliaen van Rensselaer was a 17th-century Dutch merchant and one of the principal founders and patroons of the colony of Rensselaerswyck in New Netherland.
  • B. Peter Stuyvesant
    Peter Stuyvesant was the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland, best known for his authoritarian rule and for overseeing its surrender to the English, after which it became New York.
  • C. Pierre Van Cortlandt
    Pierre Van Cortlandt was an American patriot and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor of New York during and after the Revolutionary War.
  • D. Willem Kieft
    Willem Kieft was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for his controversial and often brutal governorship of New Netherland, which included initiating Kieft's War with local Native American tribes.
  • E. Abraham Pierson
    Abraham Pierson was a colonial American clergyman and educator who served as the first rector (president) of the institution that became Yale University.
  • 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: Samuel Swartwout
Triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Samuel Swartwout]
Generated description
Samuel Swartwout was a 19th-century American politician and businessman best known for his role in a major federal embezzlement scandal while serving in the Jackson administration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Swartwout
Target entity description: Samuel Swartwout was a 19th-century American politician and businessman best known for his role in a major federal embezzlement scandal while serving in the Jackson administration.
  • A. Kiliaen van Rensselaer
    Kiliaen van Rensselaer was a 17th-century Dutch merchant and one of the principal founders and patroons of the colony of Rensselaerswyck in New Netherland.
  • B. Peter Stuyvesant
    Peter Stuyvesant was the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland, best known for his authoritarian rule and for overseeing its surrender to the English, after which it became New York.
  • C. Pierre Van Cortlandt
    Pierre Van Cortlandt was an American patriot and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor of New York during and after the Revolutionary War.
  • D. Willem Kieft
    Willem Kieft was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for his controversial and often brutal governorship of New Netherland, which included initiating Kieft's War with local Native American tribes.
  • E. Abraham Pierson
    Abraham Pierson was a colonial American clergyman and educator who served as the first rector (president) of the institution that became Yale University.
  • 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.