Triple

T5006932
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bancroft Prize E112518 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Eric Foner
Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
E487328 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: Eric Foner | Statement: [Bancroft Prize, notableRecipient, Eric Foner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Foner
Context triple: [Bancroft Prize, notableRecipient, Eric Foner]
  • A. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • B. Gordon S. Wood
    Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
  • C. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • D. Jeremy Iggers
    Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
  • E. J. O. Taylor
    J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
  • 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: Eric Foner
Triple: [Bancroft Prize, notableRecipient, Eric Foner]
Generated description
Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Foner
Target entity description: Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
  • A. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • B. Gordon S. Wood
    Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
  • C. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • D. Jeremy Iggers
    Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
  • E. J. O. Taylor
    J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
  • 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_69bd4433d0b08190877e83959ef40d81 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd72e8a0308190a47d81943ad85bba completed March 20, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9261ef088190a012d55294b9e3c2 completed March 21, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be945736d0819097e26ad90d6f9813 completed March 21, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be94d3578c81909e8139f253e26d69 completed March 21, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:35 p.m.