Triple

T7622631
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canal Commissioner of New York E172536 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object Benjamin F. Bruce
Benjamin F. Bruce was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served in state office, including as a New York Canal Commissioner.
E691452 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: Benjamin F. Bruce | Statement: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, Benjamin F. Bruce]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin F. Bruce
Context triple: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, Benjamin F. Bruce]
  • A. Alexander P. Stewart
    Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
  • B. James W. Forsyth
    James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • C. Edward B. Burling
    Edward B. Burling was an American lawyer and prominent Washington, D.C. legal figure best known as a co-founder of the influential law firm Covington & Burling.
  • D. Frederick G. Gardiner
    Frederick G. Gardiner was a prominent mid-20th-century Toronto politician and civic leader who served as the first chairman of Metropolitan Toronto and played a key role in the city’s postwar urban development.
  • E. James G. Smyth
    James G. Smyth was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Alps.
  • 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: Benjamin F. Bruce
Triple: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, Benjamin F. Bruce]
Generated description
Benjamin F. Bruce was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served in state office, including as a New York Canal Commissioner.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin F. Bruce
Target entity description: Benjamin F. Bruce was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served in state office, including as a New York Canal Commissioner.
  • A. Alexander P. Stewart
    Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
  • B. James W. Forsyth
    James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • C. Edward B. Burling
    Edward B. Burling was an American lawyer and prominent Washington, D.C. legal figure best known as a co-founder of the influential law firm Covington & Burling.
  • D. Frederick G. Gardiner
    Frederick G. Gardiner was a prominent mid-20th-century Toronto politician and civic leader who served as the first chairman of Metropolitan Toronto and played a key role in the city’s postwar urban development.
  • E. James G. Smyth
    James G. Smyth was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Alps.
  • 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_69c988f902548190a3db57b4b6debf6c completed March 29, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c9896e8eb48190813c572d914b607a completed March 29, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c989bc032c8190ab52dc93f4949aaf completed March 29, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:56 p.m.