Triple

T948177
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Andrew Jackson Downing E20459 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Charles Downing
Charles Downing was the brother of influential American landscape designer and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing, and was himself involved in 19th-century American horticulture.
 E232679 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: Charles Downing | Statement: [Andrew Jackson Downing, sibling, Charles Downing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Downing
Context triple: [Andrew Jackson Downing, sibling, Charles Downing]
  • A. Samuel Downing
    Samuel Downing was the father of influential 19th-century American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
  • B. James Dodd
    James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
  • C. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • D. Ralph Dawson
    Ralph Dawson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early 20th century.
  • E. William Jarrett
    William Jarrett was an American physician and the late husband of former senior presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett.
  • 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: Charles Downing
Triple: [Andrew Jackson Downing, sibling, Charles Downing]
Generated description
Charles Downing was the brother of influential American landscape designer and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing, and was himself involved in 19th-century American horticulture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Downing
Target entity description: Charles Downing was the brother of influential American landscape designer and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing, and was himself involved in 19th-century American horticulture.
  • A. Samuel Downing
    Samuel Downing was the father of influential 19th-century American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
  • B. James Dodd
    James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
  • C. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • D. Ralph Dawson
    Ralph Dawson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early 20th century.
  • E. William Jarrett
    William Jarrett was an American physician and the late husband of former senior presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett.
  • 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_69ae26c4077081908dbf36ed274afa58 completed March 9, 2026, 1:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae2763b4b08190b733e8342a52f75e completed March 9, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae27d10bf08190a14fa1ca906646f8 completed March 9, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.