Triple

T9488990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The New-England Magazine E228834 entity
Predicate hasNotableContributor P10455 FINISHED
Object John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley was a 19th-century American historian and diplomat best known for his influential works on the history of the Dutch Republic.
E801766 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: John Lothrop Motley | Statement: [The New-England Magazine, hasNotableContributor, John Lothrop Motley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lothrop Motley
Context triple: [The New-England Magazine, hasNotableContributor, John Lothrop Motley]
  • A. William Starr Miller
    William Starr Miller was a prominent early 20th-century American industrialist and real estate developer whose Fifth Avenue mansion later became the home of the Neue Galerie New York.
  • B. Dewitt Peters
    Dewitt Peters was an American educator and art promoter best known for fostering and popularizing Haitian art in the mid-20th century.
  • C. John Cotton Dana
    John Cotton Dana was an influential American librarian, museum director, and progressive cultural leader known for modernizing libraries and founding the Newark Museum of Art.
  • D. James T. Fields
    James T. Fields was a prominent 19th-century American publisher, editor, and poet known for championing major literary figures of his era.
  • E. Josiah Gilbert Holland
    Josiah Gilbert Holland was a 19th-century American novelist, poet, and essayist who co-founded and helped shape the influential literary periodical that became The Century Magazine.
  • 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: John Lothrop Motley
Triple: [The New-England Magazine, hasNotableContributor, John Lothrop Motley]
Generated description
John Lothrop Motley was a 19th-century American historian and diplomat best known for his influential works on the history of the Dutch Republic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lothrop Motley
Target entity description: John Lothrop Motley was a 19th-century American historian and diplomat best known for his influential works on the history of the Dutch Republic.
  • A. William Starr Miller
    William Starr Miller was a prominent early 20th-century American industrialist and real estate developer whose Fifth Avenue mansion later became the home of the Neue Galerie New York.
  • B. Dewitt Peters
    Dewitt Peters was an American educator and art promoter best known for fostering and popularizing Haitian art in the mid-20th century.
  • C. John Cotton Dana
    John Cotton Dana was an influential American librarian, museum director, and progressive cultural leader known for modernizing libraries and founding the Newark Museum of Art.
  • D. James T. Fields
    James T. Fields was a prominent 19th-century American publisher, editor, and poet known for championing major literary figures of his era.
  • E. Josiah Gilbert Holland
    Josiah Gilbert Holland was a 19th-century American novelist, poet, and essayist who co-founded and helped shape the influential literary periodical that became The Century Magazine.
  • 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_69ca847424f081908180305555139f7a completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd80c5a05c8190b97d34f010e60ca1 completed April 1, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d12d18fd908190b562fa0a8dad7c63 completed April 4, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d12da44d7c8190afb11ae3009a79e5 completed April 4, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d12e1459348190aed583b2364a53dd completed April 4, 2026, 3:28 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:55 p.m.