Triple

T7273551
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Humanist Manifesto I E161164 entity
Predicate signatory P173 FINISHED
Object E. Burdette Backus
E. Burdette Backus was an American Unitarian minister and religious humanist known for helping to articulate and promote early 20th-century humanist thought.
E816683 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: E. Burdette Backus | Statement: [Humanist Manifesto I, signatory, E. Burdette Backus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E. Burdette Backus
Context triple: [Humanist Manifesto I, signatory, E. Burdette Backus]
  • A. Burton J. Westcott
    Burton J. Westcott was an American industrialist and automobile executive best known as the owner for whom Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio.
  • B. E. D. Baker
    E. D. Baker is an American author of children's and young adult fantasy novels, best known for her humorous and romantic fairy-tale retellings such as "The Frog Princess" series.
  • C. Donald W. Sherburne
    Donald W. Sherburne was an American philosopher and prominent interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy.
  • D. John B. Denton
    John B. Denton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister, lawyer, and soldier on the Texas frontier who was killed in conflict with Native Americans and later became the namesake of Denton County, Texas.
  • E. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • 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: E. Burdette Backus
Triple: [Humanist Manifesto I, signatory, E. Burdette Backus]
Generated description
E. Burdette Backus was an American Unitarian minister and religious humanist known for helping to articulate and promote early 20th-century humanist thought.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E. Burdette Backus
Target entity description: E. Burdette Backus was an American Unitarian minister and religious humanist known for helping to articulate and promote early 20th-century humanist thought.
  • A. Burton J. Westcott
    Burton J. Westcott was an American industrialist and automobile executive best known as the owner for whom Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio.
  • B. E. D. Baker
    E. D. Baker is an American author of children's and young adult fantasy novels, best known for her humorous and romantic fairy-tale retellings such as "The Frog Princess" series.
  • C. Donald W. Sherburne
    Donald W. Sherburne was an American philosopher and prominent interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy.
  • D. John B. Denton
    John B. Denton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister, lawyer, and soldier on the Texas frontier who was killed in conflict with Native Americans and later became the namesake of Denton County, Texas.
  • E. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • 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_69c6885181008190b419040e22939c7c completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eb0c68d0819081b2aebba19bf3e8 completed March 27, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d19f4a2bd881909745f349d847ca87 completed April 4, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1a0f4d5a88190af41d44006534bdc completed April 4, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1a158413c819099af153e0c1c5756 completed April 4, 2026, 11:40 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:58 p.m.