Triple

T7743844
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Starving Time (1609–1610) E175574 entity
Predicate significantParticipant P6467 FINISHED
Object John Smith
John Smith was an English soldier and explorer who played a crucial leadership role in the early years of the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
E51677 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 Smith | Statement: [Starving Time (1609–1610), significantParticipant, John Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith
Context triple: [Starving Time (1609–1610), significantParticipant, John Smith]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Hancock, a prominent American statesman and patriot best known for his large signature on the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • B. John
    John is the husband of Martha Rainsborough.
  • C. John
    John B. Magruder was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Peninsula Campaign and his flamboyant personality.
  • D. John
    John is the first name of John Ottman, an American film editor and composer known for his work on major Hollywood movies.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Vlissides, a software engineer best known as one of the “Gang of Four” authors of the influential book *Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software*.
  • 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 Smith
Triple: [Starving Time (1609–1610), significantParticipant, John Smith]
Generated description
John Smith was an English soldier and explorer who played a crucial leadership role in the early years of the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith
Target entity description: John Smith was an English soldier and explorer who played a crucial leadership role in the early years of the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
  • A. John Smith chosen
    John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
  • B. John Smith
    John Smith is a high-ranking Nazi official in the alternate-history television series "The Man in the High Castle," whose loyalty, ambition, and moral conflicts drive much of the show's central drama.
  • C. John Smith
    John Smith was a 19th-century British officer credited with bringing the Ajanta Caves to modern attention after rediscovering them in 1819.
  • D. John Smith
    John Smith was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Bardeen, the American physicist who uniquely won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c69960b3588190a53aa590d31d9544 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c70388d58081909aad2c03b4501e78 completed March 27, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8be48d61c8190aba1e5f23d7cb1be completed March 29, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8bf664390819093c2381ff0f8aaca completed March 29, 2026, 5:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8bff4965881909a341db7d234632a completed March 29, 2026, 6 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:07 p.m.