Triple

T9195373
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Desire Howland E220691 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Shubael Gorham
Shubael Gorham was a member of the prominent Gorham family of colonial New England, known through his connections to early Plymouth Colony descendants such as Desire Howland.
 E784782 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: Shubael Gorham | Statement: [Desire Howland, child, Shubael Gorham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shubael Gorham
Context triple: [Desire Howland, child, Shubael Gorham]
  • A. Ephraim Williams
    Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
  • B. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • C. Amos Hodgman
    Amos Hodgman was an individual significant enough in local or regional history that Hodgeman County in Kansas was named in his honor.
  • D. Henry Holbrook
    Henry Holbrook was a 19th-century Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of New Westminster, British Columbia.
  • E. Abijah Bigelow
    Abijah Bigelow was an early 19th-century American lawyer and Federalist politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
  • 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: Shubael Gorham
Triple: [Desire Howland, child, Shubael Gorham]
Generated description
Shubael Gorham was a member of the prominent Gorham family of colonial New England, known through his connections to early Plymouth Colony descendants such as Desire Howland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shubael Gorham
Target entity description: Shubael Gorham was a member of the prominent Gorham family of colonial New England, known through his connections to early Plymouth Colony descendants such as Desire Howland.
  • A. Ephraim Williams
    Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
  • B. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • C. Amos Hodgman
    Amos Hodgman was an individual significant enough in local or regional history that Hodgeman County in Kansas was named in his honor.
  • D. Henry Holbrook
    Henry Holbrook was a 19th-century Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of New Westminster, British Columbia.
  • E. Abijah Bigelow
    Abijah Bigelow was an early 19th-century American lawyer and Federalist politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
  • 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_69ca83e7ba70819088b74866d9da2c30 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccd87c3a3c8190b60f19873ef6e1f8 completed April 1, 2026, 8:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d065d8f358819085dec73f25fd5746 completed April 4, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d066f0aa588190997de81afd8dc0b5 completed April 4, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d067e17fac819095544182f3232bf5 completed April 4, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:25 p.m.