Triple

T7255404
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vassall E157705 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Vassall
John Vassall was a British civil servant who became notorious as a Soviet spy during the Cold War after being blackmailed over his homosexuality.
E655672 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 Vassall | Statement: [Vassall, hasNotableBearer, John Vassall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Vassall
Context triple: [Vassall, hasNotableBearer, John Vassall]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • D. Richard Bellingham
    Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 Vassall
Triple: [Vassall, hasNotableBearer, John Vassall]
Generated description
John Vassall was a British civil servant who became notorious as a Soviet spy during the Cold War after being blackmailed over his homosexuality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Vassall
Target entity description: John Vassall was a British civil servant who became notorious as a Soviet spy during the Cold War after being blackmailed over his homosexuality.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • D. Richard Bellingham
    Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c7e523149481909bbc7dd88046e8b0 completed March 28, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7e634d06c819097634bc46c4fb34a completed March 28, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7e748e0308190b200acc781af5a92 completed March 28, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:56 p.m.