Triple

T948175
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Andrew Jackson Downing E20459 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Samuel Downing
Samuel Downing was the father of influential 19th-century American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
E172616 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: Samuel Downing | Statement: [Andrew Jackson Downing, father, Samuel Downing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Downing
Context triple: [Andrew Jackson Downing, father, Samuel Downing]
  • A. Samuel Allison
    Samuel Allison was an American physicist known for his work on nuclear physics and his leadership role in the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.
  • B. Samuel Gray
    Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
  • C. Samuel Miller
    Samuel Miller was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian, educator, and church historian who helped shape Reformed theological education in the United States.
  • D. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • E. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • 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: Samuel Downing
Triple: [Andrew Jackson Downing, father, Samuel Downing]
Generated description
Samuel Downing was the father of influential 19th-century American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Downing
Target entity description: Samuel Downing was the father of influential 19th-century American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
  • A. Samuel Allison
    Samuel Allison was an American physicist known for his work on nuclear physics and his leadership role in the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.
  • B. Samuel Gray
    Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
  • C. Samuel Miller
    Samuel Miller was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian, educator, and church historian who helped shape Reformed theological education in the United States.
  • D. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • E. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • 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_69a493b0f2fc81908cd227480a5356a1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b3bf9bb88190a79b2db698613a8d completed March 1, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad230d2870819099001561e36078f5 completed March 8, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad24b98d6881908e31adebea66affb completed March 8, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad25732ca08190bc8cbb1692adf35e completed March 8, 2026, 7:29 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.