Triple

T21612636
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Martyn E533348 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object David Brainerd
David Brainerd was an 18th-century American missionary to Native Americans whose deeply devotional life and posthumously published journals profoundly inspired later evangelical missionaries and pastors.
E1493423 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: David Brainerd | Statement: [Henry Martyn, influencedBy, David Brainerd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Brainerd
Context triple: [Henry Martyn, influencedBy, David Brainerd]
  • A. Isaac Backus
    Isaac Backus was an influential 18th-century American Baptist minister and advocate for religious liberty and the separation of church and state.
  • B. Jedidiah Morse
    Jedidiah Morse was an American geographer and clergyman known as the “father of American geography” for his influential early textbooks and maps.
  • C. William Tennent
    William Tennent was a Scottish-born American Presbyterian minister and educator best known for founding the "Log College," an influential early training school for colonial clergy that helped spur the First Great Awakening.
  • D. Samuel Sharp
    Samuel Sharp is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Sharp.
  • E. Samuel Mather
    Samuel Mather was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and writer, known as a member of the influential Mather family of colonial Boston.
  • 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: David Brainerd
Triple: [Henry Martyn, influencedBy, David Brainerd]
Generated description
David Brainerd was an 18th-century American missionary to Native Americans whose deeply devotional life and posthumously published journals profoundly inspired later evangelical missionaries and pastors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Brainerd
Target entity description: David Brainerd was an 18th-century American missionary to Native Americans whose deeply devotional life and posthumously published journals profoundly inspired later evangelical missionaries and pastors.
  • A. Isaac Backus
    Isaac Backus was an influential 18th-century American Baptist minister and advocate for religious liberty and the separation of church and state.
  • B. Jedidiah Morse
    Jedidiah Morse was an American geographer and clergyman known as the “father of American geography” for his influential early textbooks and maps.
  • C. William Tennent
    William Tennent was a Scottish-born American Presbyterian minister and educator best known for founding the "Log College," an influential early training school for colonial clergy that helped spur the First Great Awakening.
  • D. Samuel Sharp
    Samuel Sharp is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Sharp.
  • E. Samuel Mather
    Samuel Mather was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and writer, known as a member of the influential Mather family of colonial Boston.
  • 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_69e0c46411108190bba0d4176dffc9f3 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef3ba79424819094e9ee93c4bbcc0b completed April 27, 2026, 10:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09fd3d0d9881909d04a901cf65c211 completed May 17, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a0c1bb6188190966c2db0f61048f7 completed May 17, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a0cb1b9d08190aa0edccd5a49b289 completed May 17, 2026, 6:45 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:33 p.m.