Triple

T5516093
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merriam E144686 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object George Spring Merriam
George Spring Merriam was an American publisher and member of the Merriam family associated with the development and publication of Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
E529576 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: George Spring Merriam | Statement: [Merriam, hasNotableBearer, George Spring Merriam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Spring Merriam
Context triple: [Merriam, hasNotableBearer, George Spring Merriam]
  • A. Fielder Jones
    Fielder Jones was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and outfielder best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to a championship in the dead-ball era.
  • B. Charlie Dunbar Broad
    Charlie Dunbar Broad was a prominent 20th-century British philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of mind.
  • C. Billy Keller
    Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Eugene Worley
    Eugene Worley was an American jurist who served as a prominent judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
  • E. John H. Evers
    John H. Evers is an individual known primarily for bearing the surname Evers in a context where notable name-bearers are recorded or discussed.
  • 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: George Spring Merriam
Triple: [Merriam, hasNotableBearer, George Spring Merriam]
Generated description
George Spring Merriam was an American publisher and member of the Merriam family associated with the development and publication of Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Spring Merriam
Target entity description: George Spring Merriam was an American publisher and member of the Merriam family associated with the development and publication of Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
  • A. Fielder Jones
    Fielder Jones was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and outfielder best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to a championship in the dead-ball era.
  • B. Charlie Dunbar Broad
    Charlie Dunbar Broad was a prominent 20th-century British philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of mind.
  • C. Billy Keller
    Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Eugene Worley
    Eugene Worley was an American jurist who served as a prominent judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
  • E. John H. Evers
    John H. Evers is an individual known primarily for bearing the surname Evers in a context where notable name-bearers are recorded or discussed.
  • 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_69c008f77ff88190b0cd50ca207295d1 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f5d1d188190b3a222a9ecf2a0e6 completed March 22, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c027dd848481908052007e89c3f634 completed March 22, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c03847b3348190be97b7c5795df368 completed March 22, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c038e148a0819080a306307e60d437 completed March 22, 2026, 6:45 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.