Triple

T5465144
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Holme E122689 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Surveyor General of Pennsylvania
The Surveyor General of Pennsylvania was the chief colonial official responsible for mapping, land surveys, and the management of land distribution in Pennsylvania.
E497202 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: Surveyor General of Pennsylvania | Statement: [Thomas Holme, positionHeld, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Surveyor General of Pennsylvania
Context triple: [Thomas Holme, positionHeld, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania]
  • A. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a senior state executive official responsible for overseeing elections, maintaining government and corporate records, and administering various regulatory and civic functions within the state.
  • B. Treasurer of Pennsylvania
    The Treasurer of Pennsylvania is the elected statewide official responsible for managing the Commonwealth’s finances, including safeguarding public funds, overseeing investments, and processing state payments.
  • C. Thomas Penn
    Thomas Penn was an 18th-century proprietor of Pennsylvania and son of William Penn, known for overseeing and profiting from the colony’s expansion and land policies.
  • D. Jeremiah Dixon
    Jeremiah Dixon was an 18th-century English surveyor and astronomer best known for jointly establishing the Mason–Dixon line that later came to symbolize the cultural boundary between the northern and southern United States.
  • E. Josiah Snelling
    Josiah Snelling was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer best known for commanding and overseeing the construction of the frontier outpost that became Fort Snelling in Minnesota.
  • 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: Surveyor General of Pennsylvania
Triple: [Thomas Holme, positionHeld, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania]
Generated description
The Surveyor General of Pennsylvania was the chief colonial official responsible for mapping, land surveys, and the management of land distribution in Pennsylvania.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Surveyor General of Pennsylvania
Target entity description: The Surveyor General of Pennsylvania was the chief colonial official responsible for mapping, land surveys, and the management of land distribution in Pennsylvania.
  • A. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a senior state executive official responsible for overseeing elections, maintaining government and corporate records, and administering various regulatory and civic functions within the state.
  • B. Treasurer of Pennsylvania
    The Treasurer of Pennsylvania is the elected statewide official responsible for managing the Commonwealth’s finances, including safeguarding public funds, overseeing investments, and processing state payments.
  • C. Thomas Penn
    Thomas Penn was an 18th-century proprietor of Pennsylvania and son of William Penn, known for overseeing and profiting from the colony’s expansion and land policies.
  • D. Jeremiah Dixon chosen
    Jeremiah Dixon was an 18th-century English surveyor and astronomer best known for jointly establishing the Mason–Dixon line that later came to symbolize the cultural boundary between the northern and southern United States.
  • E. Josiah Snelling
    Josiah Snelling was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer best known for commanding and overseeing the construction of the frontier outpost that became Fort Snelling in Minnesota.
  • F. None of above.

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_69bd4643f16081908d7f29e08096115a completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd920590b481909b92091678ff1414 completed March 20, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf488b64d081908163edfff6484f5c completed March 22, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf49ed2e2081908642f700d97943e9 completed March 22, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf4abbf2488190a30dd222d0de0470 completed March 22, 2026, 1:49 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:08 p.m.