Triple

T20733423
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oxford History of the United States E509627 entity
Predicate hasContributor P4244 FINISHED
Object Daniel Walker Howe
Daniel Walker Howe is an American historian best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning work on early 19th-century United States history.
 E1448301 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: Daniel Walker Howe | Statement: [Oxford History of the United States, hasContributor, Daniel Walker Howe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Daniel Walker Howe
Context triple: [Oxford History of the United States, hasContributor, Daniel Walker Howe]
  • A. Robert N. Wilentz
    Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
  • B. Alan Brinkley
    Alan Brinkley was a prominent American historian and Columbia University professor known for his influential works on 20th-century U.S. political and intellectual history.
  • C. David Hackett Fischer
    David Hackett Fischer is an American historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author renowned for his influential works on early American history and military affairs.
  • D. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • E. Gordon S. Wood
    Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
  • 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: Daniel Walker Howe
Triple: [Oxford History of the United States, hasContributor, Daniel Walker Howe]
Generated description
Daniel Walker Howe is an American historian best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning work on early 19th-century United States history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Daniel Walker Howe
Target entity description: Daniel Walker Howe is an American historian best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning work on early 19th-century United States history.
  • A. Robert N. Wilentz
    Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
  • B. Alan Brinkley
    Alan Brinkley was a prominent American historian and Columbia University professor known for his influential works on 20th-century U.S. political and intellectual history.
  • C. David Hackett Fischer
    David Hackett Fischer is an American historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author renowned for his influential works on early American history and military affairs.
  • D. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • E. Gordon S. Wood
    Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
  • 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_69e0b4c589c08190834fb5d86d0efa2b completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c1ef3040819085c8056e75571104 completed April 21, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08e8358878819093b928e3dc4a9f69 completed May 16, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08e91f9e648190a39d1ff3dc3ca040 completed May 16, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08e9d349e88190b3fb6b30744df6c5 completed May 16, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:31 p.m.