Triple

T7848352
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ames E181977 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object James Barr Ames
James Barr Ames was an influential American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School known for shaping modern legal education and the case method of teaching law.
E698689 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: James Barr Ames | Statement: [Ames, hasNotableBearer, James Barr Ames]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Barr Ames
Context triple: [Ames, hasNotableBearer, James Barr Ames]
  • A. Charles Devens
    Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
  • B. Lucius A. Bigelow
    Lucius A. Bigelow was a notable individual associated with the Bigelow family or lineage, recognized for his prominence or contributions in his field or community.
  • C. Nathaniel Gilmore
    Nathaniel Gilmore was an early settler or notable local figure after whom the community of Gilmore, Ohio, was named.
  • D. Francis C. Barlow
    Francis C. Barlow was a prominent Union general of the American Civil War, known for his aggressive leadership in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
  • E. Samuel Livermore
    Samuel Livermore was an American lawyer and politician from New Hampshire who served as a U.S. senator and an early leader in the federal government.
  • 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: James Barr Ames
Triple: [Ames, hasNotableBearer, James Barr Ames]
Generated description
James Barr Ames was an influential American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School known for shaping modern legal education and the case method of teaching law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Barr Ames
Target entity description: James Barr Ames was an influential American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School known for shaping modern legal education and the case method of teaching law.
  • A. Charles Devens
    Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
  • B. Lucius A. Bigelow
    Lucius A. Bigelow was a notable individual associated with the Bigelow family or lineage, recognized for his prominence or contributions in his field or community.
  • C. Nathaniel Gilmore
    Nathaniel Gilmore was an early settler or notable local figure after whom the community of Gilmore, Ohio, was named.
  • D. Francis C. Barlow
    Francis C. Barlow was a prominent Union general of the American Civil War, known for his aggressive leadership in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
  • E. Samuel Livermore
    Samuel Livermore was an American lawyer and politician from New Hampshire who served as a U.S. senator and an early leader in the federal government.
  • 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_69ca82869ee08190b8f9040dbc2c0467 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb18e7f5988190808ae4dcfbc06991 completed March 31, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5afbb02481909008eb295c4825c1 completed March 31, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb5def38e88190864d84abd7959aa3 completed March 31, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb766e41fc8190a08f07d04774053a completed March 31, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:50 p.m.