Triple

T7992430
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joshua Johnson E186040 entity
Predicate saidToBeTheSameAs P39 FINISHED
Object Joshua Johnson (American merchant and diplomat)
Joshua Johnson was an 18th-century American merchant and diplomat who served as the first U.S. consul to London and was the father of First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams.
E703716 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: Joshua Johnson (American merchant and diplomat) | Statement: [Joshua Johnson, saidToBeTheSameAs, Joshua Johnson (American merchant and diplomat)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joshua Johnson (American merchant and diplomat)
Context triple: [Joshua Johnson, saidToBeTheSameAs, Joshua Johnson (American merchant and diplomat)]
  • A. Townsend Harris
    Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
  • B. Thomas Johnson Jr.
    Thomas Johnson Jr. was an American Founding Father who served as the first Governor of Maryland and later as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • C. Jonathan Eastman Johnson
    Jonathan Eastman Johnson was a 19th-century American painter renowned for his genre scenes and portraits, and is often regarded as a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • D. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • E. John Johnson
    John Johnson is a collegiate sports administrator known for serving as the athletic director for the Portland State Vikings football program.
  • 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: Joshua Johnson (American merchant and diplomat)
Triple: [Joshua Johnson, saidToBeTheSameAs, Joshua Johnson (American merchant and diplomat)]
Generated description
Joshua Johnson was an 18th-century American merchant and diplomat who served as the first U.S. consul to London and was the father of First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joshua Johnson (American merchant and diplomat)
Target entity description: Joshua Johnson was an 18th-century American merchant and diplomat who served as the first U.S. consul to London and was the father of First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams.
  • A. Townsend Harris
    Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
  • B. Thomas Johnson Jr.
    Thomas Johnson Jr. was an American Founding Father who served as the first Governor of Maryland and later as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • C. Jonathan Eastman Johnson
    Jonathan Eastman Johnson was a 19th-century American painter renowned for his genre scenes and portraits, and is often regarded as a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • D. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • E. John Johnson
    John Johnson was a versatile American professional basketball forward best known for his key role with the Seattle SuperSonics during their late-1970s championship runs.
  • 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_69ca829c6c308190ab05b43d234c52b2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3c712d0481908d163d2509d054fa completed March 31, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cbe0fe312c81908c6874fa0aabe7d5 completed March 31, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cbe440a66c8190a5d5b417fb5082b7 completed March 31, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc338a1c48819086ece073e04e8fa6 completed March 31, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:16 p.m.