Triple

T4853061
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Holliston, Massachusetts E108460 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Hollis
Thomas Hollis was an English philanthropist and benefactor whose support for education and public institutions led several American towns and schools to be named in his honor.
 E475241 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: Thomas Hollis | Statement: [Holliston, Massachusetts, namedAfter, Thomas Hollis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Hollis
Context triple: [Holliston, Massachusetts, namedAfter, Thomas Hollis]
  • A. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • B. Nathaniel Mather
    Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
  • C. John Harvard
    John Harvard was a 17th-century English clergyman and benefactor whose substantial bequest helped establish the institution that became Harvard University.
  • D. Elihu Yale
    Elihu Yale was an 18th-century British merchant and philanthropist whose donations to a colonial college in New Haven led to that institution being renamed Yale University in his honor.
  • E. Rufus Sewall
    Rufus Sewall is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Sewall surname.
  • 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: Thomas Hollis
Triple: [Holliston, Massachusetts, namedAfter, Thomas Hollis]
Generated description
Thomas Hollis was an English philanthropist and benefactor whose support for education and public institutions led several American towns and schools to be named in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Hollis
Target entity description: Thomas Hollis was an English philanthropist and benefactor whose support for education and public institutions led several American towns and schools to be named in his honor.
  • A. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • B. Nathaniel Mather
    Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
  • C. John Harvard
    John Harvard was a 17th-century English clergyman and benefactor whose substantial bequest helped establish the institution that became Harvard University.
  • D. Elihu Yale
    Elihu Yale was an 18th-century British merchant and philanthropist whose donations to a colonial college in New Haven led to that institution being renamed Yale University in his honor.
  • E. Rufus Sewall
    Rufus Sewall is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Sewall surname.
  • 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_69bd440a89548190a5f14ba6da6b97dc completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d3b00fc81909bdb95eb9648c907 completed March 20, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5ce33db08190b44b5b0c21d2b850 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5f6142648190bec124c9c3933cc3 completed March 21, 2026, 9:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5ffeaff481908e2e80ddc82ac6f6 completed March 21, 2026, 9:08 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.