Triple

T20506978
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edwinton E503459 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Edwin Ferry Johnson
Edwin Ferry Johnson was a 19th-century American civil engineer and surveyor known for his work on major railroad and canal projects.
E1461184 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: Edwin Ferry Johnson | Statement: [Edwinton, namedAfter, Edwin Ferry Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Ferry Johnson
Context triple: [Edwinton, namedAfter, Edwin Ferry Johnson]
  • A. James W. Forsyth
    James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • B. James T. Grady
    James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
  • C. William A. Elliott
    William A. Elliott is a film art director known for his production design work on movies such as "Action Jackson."
  • D. Edwin T. Meredith
    Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • E. Joseph Pierpont
    Joseph Pierpont was a member of the prominent Pierpont family of New England, likely known primarily through his relationship to his father, the clergyman and hymn composer James Pierpont.
  • 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: Edwin Ferry Johnson
Triple: [Edwinton, namedAfter, Edwin Ferry Johnson]
Generated description
Edwin Ferry Johnson was a 19th-century American civil engineer and surveyor known for his work on major railroad and canal projects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Ferry Johnson
Target entity description: Edwin Ferry Johnson was a 19th-century American civil engineer and surveyor known for his work on major railroad and canal projects.
  • A. James W. Forsyth
    James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • B. James T. Grady
    James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
  • C. William A. Elliott
    William A. Elliott is a film art director known for his production design work on movies such as "Action Jackson."
  • D. Edwin T. Meredith
    Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • E. Joseph Pierpont
    Joseph Pierpont was a member of the prominent Pierpont family of New England, likely known primarily through his relationship to his father, the clergyman and hymn composer James Pierpont.
  • 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_69e0b4b1e52c8190894281cf7e3283ab completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e69dc82dd0819085d64d65a1e72c70 completed April 20, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a092f9e7f188190b2a87c40d8fe55dc completed May 17, 2026, 3:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09315ef2288190ae63098b44b2c403 completed May 17, 2026, 3:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0931c67cfc8190a44e6de85764bbb2 completed May 17, 2026, 3:11 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:36 a.m.