Triple

T959445
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Yale University E20701 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Elihu Yale
Elihu Yale was an 18th-century British merchant and philanthropist whose donations to a colonial college in New Haven led to that institution being renamed Yale University in his honor.
E114193 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: Elihu Yale | Statement: [Yale University, namedAfter, Elihu Yale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elihu Yale
Context triple: [Yale University, namedAfter, Elihu Yale]
  • A. John Leverett
    John Leverett was a 17th-century colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony who played a key leadership role during King Philip's War.
  • B. John Harvard
    John Harvard was a 17th-century English clergyman and benefactor whose substantial bequest helped establish the institution that became Harvard University.
  • C. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • D. William Small
    William Small was an 18th-century Scottish physician and educator known for his influence on Thomas Jefferson and his role in the intellectual circle of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
  • E. Amos Eaton
    Amos Eaton was a pioneering American scientist and educator who helped advance practical scientific and engineering education in the early 19th century.
  • 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: Elihu Yale
Triple: [Yale University, namedAfter, Elihu Yale]
Generated description
Elihu Yale was an 18th-century British merchant and philanthropist whose donations to a colonial college in New Haven led to that institution being renamed Yale University in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elihu Yale
Target entity description: Elihu Yale was an 18th-century British merchant and philanthropist whose donations to a colonial college in New Haven led to that institution being renamed Yale University in his honor.
  • A. John Leverett
    John Leverett was a 17th-century colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony who played a key leadership role during King Philip's War.
  • B. John Harvard
    John Harvard was a 17th-century English clergyman and benefactor whose substantial bequest helped establish the institution that became Harvard University.
  • C. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • D. William Small
    William Small was an 18th-century Scottish physician and educator known for his influence on Thomas Jefferson and his role in the intellectual circle of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
  • E. Amos Eaton
    Amos Eaton was a pioneering American scientist and educator who helped advance practical scientific and engineering education in the early 19th century.
  • 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_69a493b21f2881908132dcf45dcd2f36 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b412f9f48190be123e8c20f38962 completed March 1, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac17016be0819097207669eae17490 completed March 7, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac1787a9ac81908f032cd893d3efe8 completed March 7, 2026, 12:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac1807aa388190ad2910966c9d1b04 completed March 7, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.