Triple

T8146309
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Hart Benton E190219 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Maecenas Eason Benton
Maecenas Eason Benton was the father of American painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton and a member of a prominent Missouri political family.
E717313 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: Maecenas Eason Benton | Statement: [Thomas Hart Benton, father, Maecenas Eason Benton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maecenas Eason Benton
Context triple: [Thomas Hart Benton, father, Maecenas Eason Benton]
  • A. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • B. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • C. William Gibbons
    William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
  • D. Charles Evans
    Charles Evans was a British mountaineer and surgeon best known for his leadership roles in major Himalayan expeditions during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Amos Kendall
    Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
  • 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: Maecenas Eason Benton
Triple: [Thomas Hart Benton, father, Maecenas Eason Benton]
Generated description
Maecenas Eason Benton was the father of American painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton and a member of a prominent Missouri political family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maecenas Eason Benton
Target entity description: Maecenas Eason Benton was the father of American painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton and a member of a prominent Missouri political family.
  • A. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • B. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • C. William Gibbons
    William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
  • D. Charles Evans
    Charles Evans was a British mountaineer and surgeon best known for his leadership roles in major Himalayan expeditions during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Amos Kendall
    Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
  • 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_69ca82be7ba8819087de0147e9292c83 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb4447dbc48190affb0f34f6c85f5a completed March 31, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccbedc48108190bcf98a82b9625250 completed April 1, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccc30f1fc48190991e0caa9ea6e735 completed April 1, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ccd8041c00819094094701ace21aa0 completed April 1, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:36 p.m.