Triple

T8984353
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elizabeth Patterson E214618 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William Patterson
William Patterson was a prominent early American merchant and businessman, best known as the father of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, whose marriage to Napoleon’s brother Jérôme drew international attention.
E885320 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: William Patterson | Statement: [Elizabeth Patterson, father, William Patterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Patterson
Context triple: [Elizabeth Patterson, father, William Patterson]
  • A. William Patterson
    William Patterson was a 19th-century British shipbuilder best known for constructing the pioneering iron steamship SS Great Britain.
  • B. Robert P. Patterson
    Robert P. Patterson was an American lawyer, judge, and government official who played a key leadership role in the U.S. military administration during and immediately after World War II.
  • C. James J. Rowley
    James J. Rowley was a longtime Director of the United States Secret Service, recognized for modernizing the agency and strengthening presidential protection.
  • D. John A. Peters
    John A. Peters was a prominent American politician and jurist from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the 19th century.
  • E. John H. Vreeland
    John H. Vreeland was an American lawyer and Republican politician from New Jersey who served as a state senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: William Patterson
Triple: [Elizabeth Patterson, father, William Patterson]
Generated description
William Patterson was a prominent early American merchant and businessman, best known as the father of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, whose marriage to Napoleon’s brother Jérôme drew international attention.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Patterson
Target entity description: William Patterson was a prominent early American merchant and businessman, best known as the father of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, whose marriage to Napoleon’s brother Jérôme drew international attention.
  • A. William Patterson
    William Patterson was a 19th-century British shipbuilder best known for constructing the pioneering iron steamship SS Great Britain.
  • B. Robert P. Patterson
    Robert P. Patterson was an American lawyer, judge, and government official who played a key leadership role in the U.S. military administration during and immediately after World War II.
  • C. James J. Rowley
    James J. Rowley was a longtime Director of the United States Secret Service, recognized for modernizing the agency and strengthening presidential protection.
  • D. John A. Peters
    John A. Peters was a prominent American politician and jurist from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the 19th century.
  • E. John H. Vreeland
    John H. Vreeland was an American lawyer and Republican politician from New Jersey who served as a state senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69ca839f76bc8190a4b7123cdd682199 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc67ecc5188190a6fb4d5456893121 completed April 1, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de54a30b748190bb791078e9dde442 completed April 14, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de5952f6c48190abd3b87372d54f58 completed April 14, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de5ed49c9c8190a4085407f88d7a05 completed April 14, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:03 p.m.