Triple

T12072205
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Negro Academy E287450 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object John Wesley Cromwell
John Wesley Cromwell was an African American lawyer, educator, journalist, and civil rights activist known for his pioneering work in Black intellectual and political life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E965268 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 Wesley Cromwell | Statement: [American Negro Academy, notableMember, John Wesley Cromwell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Wesley Cromwell
Context triple: [American Negro Academy, notableMember, John Wesley Cromwell]
  • A. Richard Bellingham
    Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • B. William Humphrey
    William Humphrey was an American actor and director of the silent film era, known for his character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
  • C. Edmund Brock
    Edmund Brock is a person notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Brock.
  • D. John Cromwell
    John Cromwell was an American film and stage director and actor best known for his work in classic Hollywood cinema during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. John Warham
    John Warham was an early Puritan minister and colonial leader known for helping to found and pastor settlements in New England during the 17th 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: John Wesley Cromwell
Triple: [American Negro Academy, notableMember, John Wesley Cromwell]
Generated description
John Wesley Cromwell was an African American lawyer, educator, journalist, and civil rights activist known for his pioneering work in Black intellectual and political life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Wesley Cromwell
Target entity description: John Wesley Cromwell was an African American lawyer, educator, journalist, and civil rights activist known for his pioneering work in Black intellectual and political life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Richard Bellingham
    Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • B. William Humphrey
    William Humphrey was an American actor and director of the silent film era, known for his character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
  • C. Edmund Brock
    Edmund Brock is a person notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Brock.
  • D. John Cromwell
    John Cromwell was an American film and stage director and actor best known for his work in classic Hollywood cinema during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. John Warham
    John Warham was an early Puritan minister and colonial leader known for helping to found and pastor settlements in New England during the 17th 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_69d6ab4846e081908ee7bbd66a6d3459 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9045a507081909070ea37173d6f97 completed April 10, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f65ed5908190a0082796366a8825 completed May 2, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f600b51f488190a85a8f10f190b3c0 completed May 2, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f601ebaa448190ba59485d9d7d68d1 completed May 2, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:48 p.m.