Triple

T18669847
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zenger trial E456443 entity
Predicate involvesPerson P1256 FINISHED
Object Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley was a colonial American printer and publisher associated with the landmark Zenger trial, which helped establish the principle of freedom of the press.
E1335636 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: Richard Bradley | Statement: [Zenger trial, involvesPerson, Richard Bradley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Bradley
Context triple: [Zenger trial, involvesPerson, Richard Bradley]
  • A. William Bradshaw
    William Bradshaw is the fictional narrator of Christopher Isherwood’s novel "Mr Norris Changes Trains," through whose perspective the story’s events and characters are observed and recounted.
  • B. Henry Bradley
    Henry Bradley was a British philologist and lexicographer best known for his major role as a longtime editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
  • C. Edward Bancroft
    Edward Bancroft was an 18th-century American-born physician, scientist, and double agent who secretly spied for Britain while serving as secretary to the American commissioners in Paris during the Revolutionary War.
  • D. Thomas Hume
    Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
  • E. Thomas Tickell
    Thomas Tickell was an early 18th-century English poet and translator associated with Joseph Addison and the Whig literary circle.
  • 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: Richard Bradley
Triple: [Zenger trial, involvesPerson, Richard Bradley]
Generated description
Richard Bradley was a colonial American printer and publisher associated with the landmark Zenger trial, which helped establish the principle of freedom of the press.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Bradley
Target entity description: Richard Bradley was a colonial American printer and publisher associated with the landmark Zenger trial, which helped establish the principle of freedom of the press.
  • A. William Bradshaw
    William Bradshaw is the fictional narrator of Christopher Isherwood’s novel "Mr Norris Changes Trains," through whose perspective the story’s events and characters are observed and recounted.
  • B. Henry Bradley
    Henry Bradley was a British philologist and lexicographer best known for his major role as a longtime editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
  • C. Edward Bancroft
    Edward Bancroft was an 18th-century American-born physician, scientist, and double agent who secretly spied for Britain while serving as secretary to the American commissioners in Paris during the Revolutionary War.
  • D. Thomas Hume
    Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
  • E. Thomas Tickell
    Thomas Tickell was an early 18th-century English poet and translator associated with Joseph Addison and the Whig literary circle.
  • 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_69d8d38f72b4819090a935175d9ca8af completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e556b1140c81908002c27a33c03ae2 completed April 19, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05172d70348190a6a0ee667ae4c3ba completed May 14, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05186eb5588190abac960d598cbeff completed May 14, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0518cf33f08190b0c8ef4fdaa8d9e1 completed May 14, 2026, 12:35 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:48 a.m.