Triple

T4557329
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bridget Paston E120510 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object John Paston
John Paston was a 15th-century English landowner and member of the prominent Paston family, best known through the Paston Letters that document his and his relatives’ lives and legal struggles.
E452367 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 Paston | Statement: [Bridget Paston, father, John Paston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Paston
Context triple: [Bridget Paston, father, John Paston]
  • A. Bridget Paston
    Bridget Paston was an English gentlewoman of the prominent Paston family, best known historically as the wife of eminent jurist Sir Edward Coke.
  • B. Elizabeth Popham
    Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
  • C. Mansfield Lovell
    Mansfield Lovell was a Confederate major general best known for his controversial command and loss of New Orleans to Union forces during the American Civil War.
  • D. Elizabeth Throckmorton
    Elizabeth Throckmorton was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I who secretly married the explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, causing a scandal at the Tudor court.
  • E. Thomas Leverett
    Thomas Leverett was a prominent early New England colonist and civic leader in 17th-century Boston.
  • 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 Paston
Triple: [Bridget Paston, father, John Paston]
Generated description
John Paston was a 15th-century English landowner and member of the prominent Paston family, best known through the Paston Letters that document his and his relatives’ lives and legal struggles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Paston
Target entity description: John Paston was a 15th-century English landowner and member of the prominent Paston family, best known through the Paston Letters that document his and his relatives’ lives and legal struggles.
  • A. Bridget Paston
    Bridget Paston was an English gentlewoman of the prominent Paston family, best known historically as the wife of eminent jurist Sir Edward Coke.
  • B. Elizabeth Popham
    Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
  • C. Mansfield Lovell
    Mansfield Lovell was a Confederate major general best known for his controversial command and loss of New Orleans to Union forces during the American Civil War.
  • D. Elizabeth Throckmorton
    Elizabeth Throckmorton was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I who secretly married the explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, causing a scandal at the Tudor court.
  • E. Thomas Leverett
    Thomas Leverett was a prominent early New England colonist and civic leader in 17th-century Boston.
  • 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_69bd4636f1648190a701445c2fcd9c17 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd58163e6081909d5a3aae12c42a00 completed March 20, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdc584b3188190958de6cdc1656bf3 completed March 20, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdc6186ae08190a8c4bf54c913641e completed March 20, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdc702c62881908963b9237b2857ba completed March 20, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.