Triple

T7622616
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canal Commissioner of New York E172536 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object William C. Bouck
William C. Bouck was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of New York and was closely associated with the development and administration of the state's canal system.
E677321 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 C. Bouck | Statement: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, William C. Bouck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Bouck
Context triple: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, William C. Bouck]
  • A. John Lansing Jr.
    John Lansing Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention who served as a prominent early judicial and political figure in New York.
  • B. William H. Huyler
    William H. Huyler was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey in the late 19th century.
  • C. Erastus Corning 2nd
    Erastus Corning 2nd was a long-serving Democratic mayor of Albany, New York, known for his powerful role in local politics and leadership of the city’s political machine in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Carl E. Heastie
    Carl E. Heastie is an American politician who serves as the Speaker of the New York State Assembly and represents a district in the Bronx.
  • E. Edwin A. Stevens
    Edwin A. Stevens was a 19th-century American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist from the prominent Stevens family, best known for advancing steam transportation and supporting technical education.
  • 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 C. Bouck
Triple: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, William C. Bouck]
Generated description
William C. Bouck was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of New York and was closely associated with the development and administration of the state's canal system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Bouck
Target entity description: William C. Bouck was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of New York and was closely associated with the development and administration of the state's canal system.
  • A. John Lansing Jr.
    John Lansing Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention who served as a prominent early judicial and political figure in New York.
  • B. William H. Huyler
    William H. Huyler was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey in the late 19th century.
  • C. Erastus Corning 2nd
    Erastus Corning 2nd was a long-serving Democratic mayor of Albany, New York, known for his powerful role in local politics and leadership of the city’s political machine in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Carl E. Heastie
    Carl E. Heastie is an American politician who serves as the Speaker of the New York State Assembly and represents a district in the Bronx.
  • E. Edwin A. Stevens
    Edwin A. Stevens was a 19th-century American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist from the prominent Stevens family, best known for advancing steam transportation and supporting technical education.
  • 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_69c699506b308190826894dab1d9ea86 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6fa63e66081908ba34dd4483de7fe completed March 27, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c868789618819094010e60ef73fdfd completed March 28, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c86c244d848190b53a713480761162 completed March 29, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c86c7881788190bc399c485d12d6fa completed March 29, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:56 p.m.