Triple
T6391359
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lincoln Steffens |
E143834
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Joseph Lincoln Steffens
Joseph Lincoln Steffens was an influential American muckraking journalist of the early 20th century, best known for exposing political corruption in city governments.
|
E591245
|
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: Joseph Lincoln Steffens | Statement: [Lincoln Steffens, fullName, Joseph Lincoln Steffens]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Lincoln Steffens Context triple: [Lincoln Steffens, fullName, Joseph Lincoln Steffens]
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A.
Joe Cannon
Joe Cannon is a former American professional soccer goalkeeper best known as one of Major League Soccer’s top shot-stoppers in the 2000s.
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B.
Samuel Blodgett
Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
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C.
Thomas Gibbons
Thomas Gibbons was a 19th-century American steamboat operator best known as the successful plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which expanded federal power over interstate commerce.
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D.
George Washington Plunkitt
George Washington Plunkitt was a prominent early 20th-century New York politician and Tammany Hall leader known for his candid defense of "honest graft" in machine politics.
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E.
Henry Aldrich
Henry Aldrich was a 17th-century English theologian, philosopher, and architect best known for his influential role at Christ Church, Oxford and his contributions to Baroque architecture there.
- 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: Joseph Lincoln Steffens Triple: [Lincoln Steffens, fullName, Joseph Lincoln Steffens]
Generated description
Joseph Lincoln Steffens was an influential American muckraking journalist of the early 20th century, best known for exposing political corruption in city governments.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Lincoln Steffens Target entity description: Joseph Lincoln Steffens was an influential American muckraking journalist of the early 20th century, best known for exposing political corruption in city governments.
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A.
Joe Cannon
Joe Cannon is a former American professional soccer goalkeeper best known as one of Major League Soccer’s top shot-stoppers in the 2000s.
-
B.
Samuel Blodgett
Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
-
C.
Thomas Gibbons
Thomas Gibbons was a 19th-century American steamboat operator best known as the successful plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which expanded federal power over interstate commerce.
-
D.
George Washington Plunkitt
George Washington Plunkitt was a prominent early 20th-century New York politician and Tammany Hall leader known for his candid defense of "honest graft" in machine politics.
-
E.
Henry Aldrich
Henry Aldrich was a 17th-century English theologian, philosopher, and architect best known for his influential role at Christ Church, Oxford and his contributions to Baroque architecture there.
- 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_69c008db906c819096f3597d55d95432 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0687c7fdc819099cbbb937dec215e |
completed | March 22, 2026, 10:09 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c6388b02888190989623c658469a5a |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:58 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c63c71ac188190ad7912d2e6a68af8 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:14 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c63cdf225c8190b26a23496d0acc1a |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:16 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:34 p.m.