Triple

T22586027
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Morton E564794 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Thomas Green Morton
William Thomas Green Morton was a 19th-century American dentist best known for publicly demonstrating the use of ether as a surgical anesthetic, revolutionizing pain management in medicine.
E1545336 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: William Thomas Green Morton | Statement: [Morton, hasNotableBearer, William Thomas Green Morton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas Green Morton
Context triple: [Morton, hasNotableBearer, William Thomas Green Morton]
  • A. James Addison Halsted
    James Addison Halsted was the third husband of Anna Roosevelt Halsted, the daughter of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • B. J. Marion Sims
    J. Marion Sims was a 19th-century American physician often called the "father of modern gynecology," whose pioneering surgical techniques were developed through highly controversial experiments on enslaved Black women without anesthesia.
  • C. William Halstead
    William Halstead was a 19th-century American politician who served multiple terms as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey.
  • D. Ephraim McDowell
    Ephraim McDowell was an early 19th-century American surgeon renowned for performing one of the first successful abdominal surgeries, specifically the removal of an ovarian tumor.
  • E. George Crile
    George Crile was an American journalist and producer best known for his investigative work on U.S. foreign policy and intelligence, including the book "Charlie Wilson's War."
  • 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: William Thomas Green Morton
Triple: [Morton, hasNotableBearer, William Thomas Green Morton]
Generated description
William Thomas Green Morton was a 19th-century American dentist best known for publicly demonstrating the use of ether as a surgical anesthetic, revolutionizing pain management in medicine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas Green Morton
Target entity description: William Thomas Green Morton was a 19th-century American dentist best known for publicly demonstrating the use of ether as a surgical anesthetic, revolutionizing pain management in medicine.
  • A. James Addison Halsted
    James Addison Halsted was the third husband of Anna Roosevelt Halsted, the daughter of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • B. J. Marion Sims
    J. Marion Sims was a 19th-century American physician often called the "father of modern gynecology," whose pioneering surgical techniques were developed through highly controversial experiments on enslaved Black women without anesthesia.
  • C. William Halstead
    William Halstead was a 19th-century American politician who served multiple terms as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey.
  • D. Ephraim McDowell
    Ephraim McDowell was an early 19th-century American surgeon renowned for performing one of the first successful abdominal surgeries, specifically the removal of an ovarian tumor.
  • E. George Crile
    George Crile was an American journalist and producer best known for his investigative work on U.S. foreign policy and intelligence, including the book "Charlie Wilson's War."
  • 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_69e245836014819091b91ed3074742a3 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1615d1fe081908079f777cdab12a2 completed April 29, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b3d584fb88190b64be86c696a25eb completed May 18, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b4993d9148190a222e21a7b2b633f completed May 18, 2026, 5:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b4a2de1848190bf4728c204e27703 completed May 18, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 2:46 p.m.