Triple

T4408169
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Collector of the Port of New York E94783 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Edward L. Hedden
Edward L. Hedden was a 19th-century American customs official best known for serving as Collector of the Port of New York and for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden.
E597323 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: Edward L. Hedden | Statement: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Edward L. Hedden]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward L. Hedden
Context triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Edward L. Hedden]
  • A. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • B. William S. Darling
    William S. Darling was an Academy Award–winning Hungarian-American art director known for his influential production design work in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • D. William A. Wheeler
    William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
  • E. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • 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: Edward L. Hedden
Triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Edward L. Hedden]
Generated description
Edward L. Hedden was a 19th-century American customs official best known for serving as Collector of the Port of New York and for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward L. Hedden
Target entity description: Edward L. Hedden was a 19th-century American customs official best known for serving as Collector of the Port of New York and for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden.
  • A. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • B. William S. Darling
    William S. Darling was an Academy Award–winning Hungarian-American art director known for his influential production design work in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • D. William A. Wheeler
    William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
  • E. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • 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_69c65f9d763c81908bdc6d9cfc718a55 completed March 27, 2026, 10:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c66004d46c81908ce834315486d18f completed March 27, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c660593534819094c23ee145222ff8 completed March 27, 2026, 10:47 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:28 p.m.