Triple

T7820401
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster E181113 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Thomas Potts
Thomas Potts was a 17th-century English legal clerk and writer best known for his detailed account of the 1612 Lancashire witch trials.
E695045 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: Thomas Potts | Statement: [The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, author, Thomas Potts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Potts
Context triple: [The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, author, Thomas Potts]
  • A. Thomas Blakiston
    Thomas Blakiston was a 19th-century English explorer and naturalist known for his work in East Asia and for identifying the biogeographical boundary in Japan now called Blakiston’s Line.
  • B. John Sewell
    John Sewell is a former English footballer and manager best known for his involvement in North American soccer, including coaching in the NASL.
  • C. William Strickland
    William Strickland was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer known for pioneering the Greek Revival style in the United States.
  • D. William Leitch
    William Leitch was a 19th-century Scottish astronomer and clergyman noted for being an early theorist of space travel and rocketry.
  • E. William Burnes
    William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
  • 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: Thomas Potts
Triple: [The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, author, Thomas Potts]
Generated description
Thomas Potts was a 17th-century English legal clerk and writer best known for his detailed account of the 1612 Lancashire witch trials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Potts
Target entity description: Thomas Potts was a 17th-century English legal clerk and writer best known for his detailed account of the 1612 Lancashire witch trials.
  • A. Thomas Blakiston
    Thomas Blakiston was a 19th-century English explorer and naturalist known for his work in East Asia and for identifying the biogeographical boundary in Japan now called Blakiston’s Line.
  • B. John Sewell
    John Sewell is a former English footballer and manager best known for his involvement in North American soccer, including coaching in the NASL.
  • C. William Strickland
    William Strickland was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer known for pioneering the Greek Revival style in the United States.
  • D. William Leitch
    William Leitch was a 19th-century Scottish astronomer and clergyman noted for being an early theorist of space travel and rocketry.
  • E. William Burnes
    William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
  • 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_69ca828153f48190bdb27ac46f8e0745 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cafa06d28881908d62d4c02b45cedd completed March 30, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb149bae408190a931ecbc803b0850 completed March 31, 2026, 12:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb1734159881909590ed51e8920387 completed March 31, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb1a62569c81908709d814954f667e completed March 31, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:41 p.m.