Triple

T8249867
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sartain's Union Magazine E192930 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object John Sartain
John Sartain was a 19th-century American engraver and publisher known for popularizing mezzotint engraving and for his influential role in American illustrated magazines.
E721467 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: John Sartain | Statement: [Sartain's Union Magazine, editor, John Sartain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sartain
Context triple: [Sartain's Union Magazine, editor, John Sartain]
  • A. James Sibley
    James Sibley was a benefactor whose contributions to healthcare led to a major Washington, D.C. hospital being named in his honor.
  • B. Moody Currier
    Moody Currier was a 19th-century American lawyer, banker, politician, and philanthropist from New Hampshire who served as governor and became a notable benefactor of the arts.
  • C. Charles Rockwell Lanman
    Charles Rockwell Lanman was an American philologist and Harvard professor renowned for his pioneering work in Sanskrit and Indo-Iranian studies.
  • D. Moorfield Storey
    Moorfield Storey was an American lawyer, civil rights leader, and anti-imperialist known for his early and influential advocacy for racial equality and justice.
  • E. Thomas Hartley Crawford
    Thomas Hartley Crawford was a 19th-century American politician and judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania and later as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
  • 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: John Sartain
Triple: [Sartain's Union Magazine, editor, John Sartain]
Generated description
John Sartain was a 19th-century American engraver and publisher known for popularizing mezzotint engraving and for his influential role in American illustrated magazines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sartain
Target entity description: John Sartain was a 19th-century American engraver and publisher known for popularizing mezzotint engraving and for his influential role in American illustrated magazines.
  • A. James Sibley
    James Sibley was a benefactor whose contributions to healthcare led to a major Washington, D.C. hospital being named in his honor.
  • B. Moody Currier
    Moody Currier was a 19th-century American lawyer, banker, politician, and philanthropist from New Hampshire who served as governor and became a notable benefactor of the arts.
  • C. Charles Rockwell Lanman
    Charles Rockwell Lanman was an American philologist and Harvard professor renowned for his pioneering work in Sanskrit and Indo-Iranian studies.
  • D. Moorfield Storey
    Moorfield Storey was an American lawyer, civil rights leader, and anti-imperialist known for his early and influential advocacy for racial equality and justice.
  • E. Thomas Hartley Crawford
    Thomas Hartley Crawford was a 19th-century American politician and judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania and later as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
  • 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_69ca82de7b8c81908d8106f8a53cff9b completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb78c817708190ad1c364e12083d26 completed March 31, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd353888208190941d1c0b7b911cdd completed April 1, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd37a71af481909e82aa29ae558c4a completed April 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4ef034ec8190a4229b21e6088c79 completed April 1, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:48 p.m.