Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Arnold E112907 entity
Predicate alternateName P39 FINISHED
Object James Arnold of New Bedford
James Arnold of New Bedford was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and philanthropist from New Bedford, Massachusetts, best known for endowing the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University.
E486105 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: James Arnold of New Bedford | Statement: [James Arnold, alternateName, James Arnold of New Bedford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Arnold of New Bedford
Context triple: [James Arnold, alternateName, James Arnold of New Bedford]
  • A. Douglas Boston
    The Douglas Boston was an American World War II light bomber and attack aircraft, known in British service as the Boston and Havoc, that saw extensive use in bombing, ground-attack, and night-fighter roles.
  • B. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • C. Henry Stellwagen
    Henry Stellwagen was a 19th-century U.S. Navy officer and hydrographer whose coastal survey work led to the prominent marine sanctuary Stellwagen Bank being named in his honor.
  • D. Samuel Ballard
    Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
  • E. Edward Shippen Arnold
    Edward Shippen Arnold was the son of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and Peggy Shippen, known primarily through his connection to this historically infamous family.
  • 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: James Arnold of New Bedford
Triple: [James Arnold, alternateName, James Arnold of New Bedford]
Generated description
James Arnold of New Bedford was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and philanthropist from New Bedford, Massachusetts, best known for endowing the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Arnold of New Bedford
Target entity description: James Arnold of New Bedford was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and philanthropist from New Bedford, Massachusetts, best known for endowing the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University.
  • A. Douglas Boston
    The Douglas Boston was an American World War II light bomber and attack aircraft, known in British service as the Boston and Havoc, that saw extensive use in bombing, ground-attack, and night-fighter roles.
  • B. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • C. Henry Stellwagen
    Henry Stellwagen was a 19th-century U.S. Navy officer and hydrographer whose coastal survey work led to the prominent marine sanctuary Stellwagen Bank being named in his honor.
  • D. Samuel Ballard
    Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
  • E. Edward Shippen Arnold
    Edward Shippen Arnold was the son of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and Peggy Shippen, known primarily through his connection to this historically infamous family.
  • 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_69bd4435c2f48190be593158cbfcf8a3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd73670578819099a56112950708a8 completed March 20, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9286bb28819095ca0ec858061419 completed March 21, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be933f3ed08190a128c1b3c9b3b1c3 completed March 21, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be940b2eac819099001d403501afac completed March 21, 2026, 12:50 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:36 p.m.