Triple
T7755816
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Boston Associates |
E175892
|
entity |
| Predicate | keyMember |
P44793
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Israel Thorndike
Israel Thorndike was an influential early American merchant, financier, and politician who played a major role in New England’s commercial and industrial development.
|
E686570
|
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: Israel Thorndike | Statement: [Boston Associates, keyMember, Israel Thorndike]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Israel Thorndike Context triple: [Boston Associates, keyMember, Israel Thorndike]
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A.
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician-turned-anthropologist known for his influential early fieldwork in Africa and the Pacific and for helping establish social anthropology as an academic discipline in the early 20th century.
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B.
Frederick B. Bartlett
Frederick B. Bartlett is a Christian cleric who served as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, overseeing the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota.
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C.
Louis Thurstone
Louis Thurstone was an American psychologist and psychometrician best known for developing the theory of primary mental abilities and pioneering modern factor analysis in intelligence research.
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D.
Charles Edward Rogers
Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers was an American actor and musician best known as a popular leading man of early Hollywood cinema, particularly in the silent film era.
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E.
Charles Jerald Hull
Charles Jerald Hull was a Chicago businessman and property owner whose former residence became the site of the famous Hull House social settlement.
- 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: Israel Thorndike Triple: [Boston Associates, keyMember, Israel Thorndike]
Generated description
Israel Thorndike was an influential early American merchant, financier, and politician who played a major role in New England’s commercial and industrial development.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Israel Thorndike Target entity description: Israel Thorndike was an influential early American merchant, financier, and politician who played a major role in New England’s commercial and industrial development.
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A.
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician-turned-anthropologist known for his influential early fieldwork in Africa and the Pacific and for helping establish social anthropology as an academic discipline in the early 20th century.
-
B.
Frederick B. Bartlett
Frederick B. Bartlett is a Christian cleric who served as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, overseeing the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota.
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C.
Louis Thurstone
Louis Thurstone was an American psychologist and psychometrician best known for developing the theory of primary mental abilities and pioneering modern factor analysis in intelligence research.
-
D.
Charles Edward Rogers
Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers was an American actor and musician best known as a popular leading man of early Hollywood cinema, particularly in the silent film era.
-
E.
Charles Jerald Hull
Charles Jerald Hull was a Chicago businessman and property owner whose former residence became the site of the famous Hull House social settlement.
- 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_69c6996180088190832e38e8d83ff54a |
completed | March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c703d9d8fc8190b51faeb081ee425f |
completed | March 27, 2026, 10:25 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c8be5dbf5881908d07d70c8ae061a5 |
completed | March 29, 2026, 5:53 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c8bfc8256081908a6ae947d783f19f |
completed | March 29, 2026, 5:59 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c8c02e7a548190b2c5ad84e4c3f1fb |
completed | March 29, 2026, 6:01 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.