Triple

T18537325
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California E452997 entity
Predicate notableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object Samuel Merritt
Samuel Merritt was a 19th-century physician, politician, and philanthropist who served as mayor of Oakland, California, and became a major benefactor of medical education in the region.
E1329457 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 Merritt | Statement: [Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California, notableBurial, Samuel Merritt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Merritt
Context triple: [Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California, notableBurial, Samuel Merritt]
  • A. Eugene Loring
    Eugene Loring was an American choreographer and dancer best known for creating the influential ballet "Billy the Kid" and for his contributions to mid-20th-century American ballet and modern dance.
  • B. Adolph Sutro
    Adolph Sutro was a 19th-century engineer, entrepreneur, and politician best known as the former mayor of San Francisco and the developer of the Sutro Baths and other major city landmarks.
  • C. Henry McCord
    Henry McCord is a central fictional character in the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known as the supportive and morally grounded husband of Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord and a former military officer and ethics professor.
  • D. Alfred Sutro
    Alfred Sutro was a British playwright, essayist, and translator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for bringing works of European literature to English-speaking audiences.
  • E. Sidney Harmon
    Sidney Harmon was an American writer and producer best known for his work on stage and screen, including providing the story that inspired the 1942 film "The Talk of the Town."
  • 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 Merritt
Triple: [Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California, notableBurial, Samuel Merritt]
Generated description
Samuel Merritt was a 19th-century physician, politician, and philanthropist who served as mayor of Oakland, California, and became a major benefactor of medical education in the region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Merritt
Target entity description: Samuel Merritt was a 19th-century physician, politician, and philanthropist who served as mayor of Oakland, California, and became a major benefactor of medical education in the region.
  • A. Eugene Loring
    Eugene Loring was an American choreographer and dancer best known for creating the influential ballet "Billy the Kid" and for his contributions to mid-20th-century American ballet and modern dance.
  • B. Adolph Sutro
    Adolph Sutro was a 19th-century engineer, entrepreneur, and politician best known as the former mayor of San Francisco and the developer of the Sutro Baths and other major city landmarks.
  • C. Henry McCord
    Henry McCord is a central fictional character in the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known as the supportive and morally grounded husband of Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord and a former military officer and ethics professor.
  • D. Alfred Sutro
    Alfred Sutro was a British playwright, essayist, and translator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for bringing works of European literature to English-speaking audiences.
  • E. Sidney Harmon
    Sidney Harmon was an American writer and producer best known for his work on stage and screen, including providing the story that inspired the 1942 film "The Talk of the Town."
  • 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_69d8d387b5548190aa030dad2cb4947e completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e534030bd88190b25b95305a12a0c1 completed April 19, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a04917f770c8190b25da102a3368828 completed May 13, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0493595bec8190b92e737effb91f54 completed May 13, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a04941c17988190b38bfce00fedbeca completed May 13, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:37 a.m.