Triple

T794808
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chester A. Arthur E16994 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Collector of the Port of New York
The Collector of the Port of New York was a powerful 19th-century federal customs post responsible for overseeing and taxing the vast volume of imports entering through New York Harbor, making it one of the most politically influential patronage positions in the United States.
E94783 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: Collector of the Port of New York | Statement: [Chester A. Arthur, positionHeld, Collector of the Port of New York]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Collector of the Port of New York
Context triple: [Chester A. Arthur, positionHeld, Collector of the Port of New York]
  • A. The New York Packet
    The New York Packet was an 18th-century New York City newspaper known for printing essays from The Federalist Papers during the debate over ratifying the U.S. Constitution.
  • B. Port of New York and New Jersey
    The Port of New York and New Jersey is the largest seaport on the U.S. East Coast and a major global shipping and transportation hub serving the New York metropolitan area.
  • C. Brooklyn Navy Yard
    The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a historic former U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility on the Brooklyn waterfront that played a major role in American naval construction before its redevelopment into an industrial and commercial hub.
  • D. Angel Island
    Angel Island is a historic island in San Francisco Bay known for its former U.S. immigration station, often called the "Ellis Island of the West."
  • E. City of Big Shoulders
    City of Big Shoulders is a poetic nickname for Chicago that evokes its history as a powerful industrial and working-class metropolis.
  • 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: Collector of the Port of New York
Triple: [Chester A. Arthur, positionHeld, Collector of the Port of New York]
Generated description
The Collector of the Port of New York was a powerful 19th-century federal customs post responsible for overseeing and taxing the vast volume of imports entering through New York Harbor, making it one of the most politically influential patronage positions in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Collector of the Port of New York
Target entity description: The Collector of the Port of New York was a powerful 19th-century federal customs post responsible for overseeing and taxing the vast volume of imports entering through New York Harbor, making it one of the most politically influential patronage positions in the United States.
  • A. The New York Packet
    The New York Packet was an 18th-century New York City newspaper known for printing essays from The Federalist Papers during the debate over ratifying the U.S. Constitution.
  • B. Port of New York and New Jersey
    The Port of New York and New Jersey is the largest seaport on the U.S. East Coast and a major global shipping and transportation hub serving the New York metropolitan area.
  • C. Brooklyn Navy Yard
    The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a historic former U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility on the Brooklyn waterfront that played a major role in American naval construction before its redevelopment into an industrial and commercial hub.
  • D. Angel Island
    Angel Island is a historic island in San Francisco Bay known for its former U.S. immigration station, often called the "Ellis Island of the West."
  • E. City of Big Shoulders
    City of Big Shoulders is a poetic nickname for Chicago that evokes its history as a powerful industrial and working-class metropolis.
  • 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_69a4936cb7448190914f5fe4b8d81607 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a7b04cd8819092e2fd7ba4df8672 completed March 1, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a67effd3b481909036bdc43d7b909f completed March 3, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a67fd11a5081909d068eabe31b2187 completed March 3, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a680bae34481909255d07f325d97d4 completed March 3, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.