Triple

T5032162
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bigelow E113330 entity
Predicate hasNotableIndividual P304 FINISHED
Object John Bigelow Jr.
John Bigelow Jr. was an American military officer, historian, and author best known for his service in the U.S. Army and his scholarly works on military history.
 E543710 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 Bigelow Jr. | Statement: [Bigelow, hasNotableIndividual, John Bigelow Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Bigelow Jr.
Context triple: [Bigelow, hasNotableIndividual, John Bigelow Jr.]
  • A. John Bigelow
    John Bigelow was a 19th-century American lawyer, diplomat, and author who served as U.S. minister to France during the Civil War and later as New York’s Secretary of State.
  • B. James G. Blight
    James G. Blight is an American historian and scholar of international relations known for his work on U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and the prevention of catastrophic conflict.
  • C. Thomas A. Bartlett
    Thomas A. Bartlett is an American academic leader and former university president known for his influential roles in higher education administration and policy.
  • D. James D. Henry
    James D. Henry was an American militia officer best known for leading U.S. forces against Black Hawk’s band during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
  • E. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • 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 Bigelow Jr.
Triple: [Bigelow, hasNotableIndividual, John Bigelow Jr.]
Generated description
John Bigelow Jr. was an American military officer, historian, and author best known for his service in the U.S. Army and his scholarly works on military history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Bigelow Jr.
Target entity description: John Bigelow Jr. was an American military officer, historian, and author best known for his service in the U.S. Army and his scholarly works on military history.
  • A. John Bigelow
    John Bigelow was a 19th-century American lawyer, diplomat, and author who served as U.S. minister to France during the Civil War and later as New York’s Secretary of State.
  • B. James G. Blight
    James G. Blight is an American historian and scholar of international relations known for his work on U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and the prevention of catastrophic conflict.
  • C. Thomas A. Bartlett
    Thomas A. Bartlett is an American academic leader and former university president known for his influential roles in higher education administration and policy.
  • D. James D. Henry
    James D. Henry was an American militia officer best known for leading U.S. forces against Black Hawk’s band during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
  • E. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • 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_69bd443775e48190a646ffbfc4334723 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd73b4d1708190aa1fa63104555f8a completed March 20, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07d466cbc8190a91dcc0c26aba817 completed March 22, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0865e261c8190b54bec80ed6a9aaf completed March 23, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c086b52dec8190bea2e13991389992 completed March 23, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:36 p.m.