Triple

T8867331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Blatchford E211050 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Richard Milford Blatchford
Richard Milford Blatchford was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York who served as U.S. Minister to the Papal States and was influential in Whig and early Republican politics.
E786232 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: Richard Milford Blatchford | Statement: [Samuel Blatchford, father, Richard Milford Blatchford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Milford Blatchford
Context triple: [Samuel Blatchford, father, Richard Milford Blatchford]
  • A. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • B. Kenneth Alexander Blatchford
    Kenneth Alexander Blatchford was a prominent Canadian politician and former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, recognized for his contributions to the city’s development.
  • C. Christopher Fairbank
    Christopher Fairbank is a British character actor known for his distinctive features and roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" and various Shakespearean adaptations.
  • D. Edward Douglas Fawcett
    Edward Douglas Fawcett was a British philosopher, novelist, and mountaineer known for his works on idealist philosophy and speculative fiction.
  • E. Edward Pritchard Gee
    Edward Pritchard Gee was a British naturalist and tea planter in India and Bhutan known for his wildlife surveys and conservation work, particularly in relation to primates such as the golden langur.
  • 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: Richard Milford Blatchford
Triple: [Samuel Blatchford, father, Richard Milford Blatchford]
Generated description
Richard Milford Blatchford was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York who served as U.S. Minister to the Papal States and was influential in Whig and early Republican politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Milford Blatchford
Target entity description: Richard Milford Blatchford was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York who served as U.S. Minister to the Papal States and was influential in Whig and early Republican politics.
  • A. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • B. Kenneth Alexander Blatchford
    Kenneth Alexander Blatchford was a prominent Canadian politician and former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, recognized for his contributions to the city’s development.
  • C. Christopher Fairbank
    Christopher Fairbank is a British character actor known for his distinctive features and roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" and various Shakespearean adaptations.
  • D. Edward Douglas Fawcett
    Edward Douglas Fawcett was a British philosopher, novelist, and mountaineer known for his works on idealist philosophy and speculative fiction.
  • E. Edward Pritchard Gee
    Edward Pritchard Gee was a British naturalist and tea planter in India and Bhutan known for his wildlife surveys and conservation work, particularly in relation to primates such as the golden langur.
  • 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_69ca838d3c7c8190a849566d5afd2b11 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6108530c819084559f4de669ce20 completed April 1, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0772ba2808190b8b7948a09b8dee5 completed April 4, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0789ce9908190b5771e07f8b91ec0 completed April 4, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0791194948190ad0f1a3114b9b0ef completed April 4, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:51 p.m.