Triple

T4408176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Collector of the Port of New York E94783 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object John A. Dix
John A. Dix was a 19th-century American politician, military officer, and statesman who served as a U.S. senator, Union major general in the Civil War, and governor of New York.
E440851 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: John A. Dix | Statement: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, John A. Dix]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. Dix
Context triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, John A. Dix]
  • A. Simeon E. Baldwin
    Simeon E. Baldwin was an American jurist, legal scholar, and governor of Connecticut who played a key role in shaping legal education and public life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Alfred Moore
    Alfred Moore was an American lawyer, Revolutionary War officer, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the nation’s highest court from 1799 to 1804.
  • C. Felix Grundy
    Felix Grundy was a prominent 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. congressman, senator, and Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
  • D. William De Witt
    William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
  • E. John Lansing Jr.
    John Lansing Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention who served as a prominent early judicial and political figure in 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: John A. Dix
Triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, John A. Dix]
Generated description
John A. Dix was a 19th-century American politician, military officer, and statesman who served as a U.S. senator, Union major general in the Civil War, and governor of New York.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. Dix
Target entity description: John A. Dix was a 19th-century American politician, military officer, and statesman who served as a U.S. senator, Union major general in the Civil War, and governor of New York.
  • A. Simeon E. Baldwin
    Simeon E. Baldwin was an American jurist, legal scholar, and governor of Connecticut who played a key role in shaping legal education and public life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Alfred Moore
    Alfred Moore was an American lawyer, Revolutionary War officer, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the nation’s highest court from 1799 to 1804.
  • C. Felix Grundy
    Felix Grundy was a prominent 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. congressman, senator, and Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
  • D. William De Witt
    William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
  • E. John Lansing Jr.
    John Lansing Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention who served as a prominent early judicial and political figure in 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_69b6136149ac8190a7cfd866bacc809f completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b617c13d4481909d22d201ce405d3a completed March 15, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b6187687f8819084e2d611e9e31f79 completed March 15, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:28 p.m.