Triple

T20641530
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boston Manufacturing Company E507236 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Nathan Appleton E251402 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Nathan Appleton | Statement: [Boston Manufacturing Company, foundedBy, Nathan Appleton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathan Appleton
Context triple: [Boston Manufacturing Company, foundedBy, Nathan Appleton]
  • A. Nathan Appleton chosen
    Nathan Appleton was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, industrialist, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry in New England.
  • B. John Davenport
    John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
  • C. Samuel Appleton
    Samuel Appleton was a 17th-century Massachusetts military officer and colonial leader known for his role in King Philip’s War.
  • D. Isaac Tichenor
    Isaac Tichenor was an American lawyer and Federalist politician who served multiple terms as governor of Vermont in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Philip Holbrook
    Philip Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Holbrook.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69e0b4be702c8190a3d2410a881d310a completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6af1b9e888190b61edffea16487d7 completed April 20, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08cd53c580819089127b06429f302b completed May 16, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:43 a.m.