Triple

T7948142
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York State Constitutional Convention of 1777 E184546 entity
Predicate participant P858 FINISHED
Object William Smith Jr.
William Smith Jr. was an American lawyer and political figure from New York who played a role in the founding era of the United States, including early state constitutional development.
E704561 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: William Smith Jr. | Statement: [New York State Constitutional Convention of 1777, participant, William Smith Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith Jr.
Context triple: [New York State Constitutional Convention of 1777, participant, William Smith Jr.]
  • A. William Smith Jewett
    William Smith Jewett was a 19th-century American painter known for his portraits and genre scenes.
  • B. James Hall
    James Hall was a pioneering 18th–19th century Scottish geologist whose careful field observations, including at Siccar Point, helped establish the deep timescales of Earth's geological history.
  • C. Benjamin Woodward
    Benjamin Woodward was a 19th-century Irish architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs and his role in the firm Deane and Woodward.
  • D. John James
    John James was an early 18th-century English architect known for designing several notable London churches in the Baroque and Palladian styles.
  • E. Samuel Gray
    Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
  • 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: William Smith Jr.
Triple: [New York State Constitutional Convention of 1777, participant, William Smith Jr.]
Generated description
William Smith Jr. was an American lawyer and political figure from New York who played a role in the founding era of the United States, including early state constitutional development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith Jr.
Target entity description: William Smith Jr. was an American lawyer and political figure from New York who played a role in the founding era of the United States, including early state constitutional development.
  • A. William Smith Jewett
    William Smith Jewett was a 19th-century American painter known for his portraits and genre scenes.
  • B. James Hall
    James Hall was a pioneering 18th–19th century Scottish geologist whose careful field observations, including at Siccar Point, helped establish the deep timescales of Earth's geological history.
  • C. Benjamin Woodward
    Benjamin Woodward was a 19th-century Irish architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs and his role in the firm Deane and Woodward.
  • D. John James
    John James was an early 18th-century English architect known for designing several notable London churches in the Baroque and Palladian styles.
  • E. Samuel Gray
    Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
  • 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_69ca8291c2008190b1b8832c87814bcf completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3b2bf6f48190ac7491c41045cab2 completed March 31, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cbe03c7d308190aec1172415be995c completed March 31, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cbe4383d0c819085e7c95e7b0be16e completed March 31, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc34a83cec81908aba7afbaea53449 completed March 31, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:10 p.m.