Triple

T4713910
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Eager Howard E104584 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Cornelius Howard
Cornelius Howard was a member of the prominent Howard family of Maryland and the father of American Revolutionary War officer and statesman John Eager Howard.
E482976 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 Howard | Statement: [John Eager Howard, father, Cornelius Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelius Howard
Context triple: [John Eager Howard, father, Cornelius Howard]
  • A. Cornelius Mathews
    Cornelius Mathews was a 19th-century American writer and editor associated with the Young America movement, known for his satirical and nationalistic literary works.
  • B. Cornelius Johnson
    Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
  • C. Alonzo B. Cornell
    Alonzo B. Cornell was an American politician and businessman who served as governor of New York in the early 1880s and was a prominent figure in the Republican Party during the Gilded Age.
  • D. Cyrus K. Holliday
    Cyrus K. Holliday was a 19th-century American railroad executive, politician, and co-founder of both the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the city of Topeka, Kansas.
  • E. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • 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 Howard
Triple: [John Eager Howard, father, Cornelius Howard]
Generated description
Cornelius Howard was a member of the prominent Howard family of Maryland and the father of American Revolutionary War officer and statesman John Eager Howard.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelius Howard
Target entity description: Cornelius Howard was a member of the prominent Howard family of Maryland and the father of American Revolutionary War officer and statesman John Eager Howard.
  • A. Cornelius Mathews
    Cornelius Mathews was a 19th-century American writer and editor associated with the Young America movement, known for his satirical and nationalistic literary works.
  • B. Cornelius Johnson
    Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
  • C. Alonzo B. Cornell
    Alonzo B. Cornell was an American politician and businessman who served as governor of New York in the early 1880s and was a prominent figure in the Republican Party during the Gilded Age.
  • D. Cyrus K. Holliday
    Cyrus K. Holliday was a 19th-century American railroad executive, politician, and co-founder of both the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the city of Topeka, Kansas.
  • E. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • 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_69bd43ec4a348190bc41afae43375e71 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6407659481908bcdc063d7b3da00 completed March 20, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be81a68c2081909048920f4469ecab completed March 21, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be83b10e048190889289ac2ca9f07f completed March 21, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be843e2e50819099b2b73498c7c16e completed March 21, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:18 p.m.