Triple

T42030
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Declaration of Independence E830 entity
Predicate signer P173 FINISHED
Object John Witherspoon
John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and statesman who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and became a prominent political leader during the American Revolution.
E15879 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: John Witherspoon | Statement: [United States Declaration of Independence, signer, John Witherspoon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Witherspoon
Context triple: [United States Declaration of Independence, signer, John Witherspoon]
  • A. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • B. James Bowdoin
    James Bowdoin was an 18th-century American political leader, scholar, and governor of Massachusetts who played a key role in the intellectual and civic life of the early United States.
  • C. Increase Mather
    Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Benjamin A. Smith II
    Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
  • E. Frederick Muhlenberg
    Frederick Muhlenberg was an American politician and clergyman who became the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the early years of the republic.
  • 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: John Witherspoon
Triple: [United States Declaration of Independence, signer, John Witherspoon]
Generated description
John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and statesman who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and became a prominent political leader during the American Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Witherspoon
Target entity description: John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and statesman who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and became a prominent political leader during the American Revolution.
  • A. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • B. James Bowdoin
    James Bowdoin was an 18th-century American political leader, scholar, and governor of Massachusetts who played a key role in the intellectual and civic life of the early United States.
  • C. Increase Mather
    Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Benjamin A. Smith II
    Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
  • E. Frederick Muhlenberg
    Frederick Muhlenberg was an American politician and clergyman who became the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the early years of the republic.
  • 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_69a247a8f6c08190bac804906d62ed5a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24ec1ef5481909daf99654dfa3f57 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b01346cc8190bbe82bd00e0bfc05 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b09fb0d481908e1fa9cf5618ba45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b21936c881909e7bb27b948cc8b8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:15 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.