Triple

T8787595
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Houlton, Maine E209078 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Joseph Houlton
Joseph Houlton was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Houlton, Maine, was named.
E769943 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: Joseph Houlton | Statement: [Houlton, Maine, namedAfter, Joseph Houlton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Houlton
Context triple: [Houlton, Maine, namedAfter, Joseph Houlton]
  • A. George Woodhouse
    George Woodhouse was a 19th-century English architect known for designing prominent public buildings in the Victorian era.
  • B. George Horton
    George Horton was an English painter associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century Cullercoats artist colony, known for his coastal and maritime scenes.
  • C. John Hartwell
    John Hartwell is a member of the Hartwell family, a lineage noted for its historical and genealogical significance.
  • D. Edward Hodges Baily
    Edward Hodges Baily was a prominent 19th-century English sculptor best known for his neoclassical works and major public monuments in London.
  • E. William Hutchinson
    William Hutchinson was a 17th-century English merchant and colonial settler in Massachusetts Bay, best known as the husband of religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson.
  • 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: Joseph Houlton
Triple: [Houlton, Maine, namedAfter, Joseph Houlton]
Generated description
Joseph Houlton was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Houlton, Maine, was named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Houlton
Target entity description: Joseph Houlton was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Houlton, Maine, was named.
  • A. George Woodhouse
    George Woodhouse was a 19th-century English architect known for designing prominent public buildings in the Victorian era.
  • B. George Horton
    George Horton was an English painter associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century Cullercoats artist colony, known for his coastal and maritime scenes.
  • C. John Hartwell
    John Hartwell is a member of the Hartwell family, a lineage noted for its historical and genealogical significance.
  • D. Edward Hodges Baily
    Edward Hodges Baily was a prominent 19th-century English sculptor best known for his neoclassical works and major public monuments in London.
  • E. William Hutchinson
    William Hutchinson was a 17th-century English merchant and colonial settler in Massachusetts Bay, best known as the husband of religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson.
  • 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_69ca836168108190bb43d3dc235c1f55 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5f89a84c819085d4cfe4e6dfbda8 completed March 31, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc921d3408190a2f823473bf9b4bc completed April 3, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfcccaea508190ac9c0b2d2b496c5c completed April 3, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfcd1dd12881909d250c08feeb9fbf completed April 3, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:43 p.m.