Triple

T7255401
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vassall E157705 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Vassall
William Vassall was a 17th-century English colonial figure and early settler in Massachusetts known for his opposition to the Puritan theocracy and advocacy of religious tolerance.
E652125 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: William Vassall | Statement: [Vassall, hasNotableBearer, William Vassall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Vassall
Context triple: [Vassall, hasNotableBearer, William Vassall]
  • A. John Vassall Jr.
    John Vassall Jr. was an 18th-century Loyalist landowner in colonial Massachusetts whose former mansion later became the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site.
  • B. William Vans Murray
    William Vans Murray was an American diplomat and politician best known for helping negotiate peace with France during the Quasi-War at the turn of the 19th century.
  • C. William Hutchinson
    William Hutchinson was a 17th-century English merchant and colonial settler in Massachusetts Bay, best known as the husband of religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson.
  • D. Samuel Vetch
    Samuel Vetch was a Scottish-born colonial governor and military leader in early 18th-century Nova Scotia, notable for his role in British campaigns against French Acadia.
  • E. George Howard
    George Howard is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Howard.
  • 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: William Vassall
Triple: [Vassall, hasNotableBearer, William Vassall]
Generated description
William Vassall was a 17th-century English colonial figure and early settler in Massachusetts known for his opposition to the Puritan theocracy and advocacy of religious tolerance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Vassall
Target entity description: William Vassall was a 17th-century English colonial figure and early settler in Massachusetts known for his opposition to the Puritan theocracy and advocacy of religious tolerance.
  • A. John Vassall Jr.
    John Vassall Jr. was an 18th-century Loyalist landowner in colonial Massachusetts whose former mansion later became the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site.
  • B. William Vans Murray
    William Vans Murray was an American diplomat and politician best known for helping negotiate peace with France during the Quasi-War at the turn of the 19th century.
  • C. William Hutchinson
    William Hutchinson was a 17th-century English merchant and colonial settler in Massachusetts Bay, best known as the husband of religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson.
  • D. Samuel Vetch
    Samuel Vetch was a Scottish-born colonial governor and military leader in early 18th-century Nova Scotia, notable for his role in British campaigns against French Acadia.
  • E. George Howard
    George Howard is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Howard.
  • 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_69c6882d81d4819085f7ff862951ee4f completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eaa0c76c81909fe43ed6938a13ea completed March 27, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7d3b053248190802b11212a8a668f completed March 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7d44e67848190ac52eca99ef18f28 completed March 28, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7d4fc837c81909827352be19f64b4 completed March 28, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:56 p.m.