Triple

T4662464
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The New Republic E102565 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Herbert Croly
Herbert Croly was an American political theorist and journalist whose progressive ideas about democracy and the role of the state strongly influenced early 20th-century liberal thought in the United States.
E458590 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: Herbert Croly | Statement: [The New Republic, founder, Herbert Croly]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Croly
Context triple: [The New Republic, founder, Herbert Croly]
  • A. Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
    Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. was a prominent American historian and Harvard professor known for his influential work on social and urban history in the United States.
  • B. Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
    Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was a prominent American historian, social critic, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for his influential works on the American presidency and liberalism.
  • C. Richard T. Ely
    Richard T. Ely was an influential American economist and social reformer known for helping establish economics as an academic discipline in the United States and for advocating progressive social policies.
  • D. Walter Lippmann
    Walter Lippmann was an influential American writer, political commentator, and public intellectual whose work on public opinion and democracy shaped 20th-century political thought and journalism.
  • E. William Allen White
    William Allen White was a prominent American newspaper editor, author, and political commentator known as the influential editor of the Emporia Gazette and a leading voice of Midwestern progressivism in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Herbert Croly
Triple: [The New Republic, founder, Herbert Croly]
Generated description
Herbert Croly was an American political theorist and journalist whose progressive ideas about democracy and the role of the state strongly influenced early 20th-century liberal thought in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Croly
Target entity description: Herbert Croly was an American political theorist and journalist whose progressive ideas about democracy and the role of the state strongly influenced early 20th-century liberal thought in the United States.
  • A. Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
    Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. was a prominent American historian and Harvard professor known for his influential work on social and urban history in the United States.
  • B. Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
    Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was a prominent American historian, social critic, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for his influential works on the American presidency and liberalism.
  • C. Richard T. Ely
    Richard T. Ely was an influential American economist and social reformer known for helping establish economics as an academic discipline in the United States and for advocating progressive social policies.
  • D. Walter Lippmann
    Walter Lippmann was an influential American writer, political commentator, and public intellectual whose work on public opinion and democracy shaped 20th-century political thought and journalism.
  • E. William Allen White
    William Allen White was a prominent American newspaper editor, author, and political commentator known as the influential editor of the Emporia Gazette and a leading voice of Midwestern progressivism in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69bd43d823288190952279faa0d1d066 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd632b7fb88190821f213620719d6b completed March 20, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfafcd3908190aabf7975017ce337 completed March 21, 2026, 1:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfc7b84108190af39c7780f702745 completed March 21, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfd3856b48190a44f49da5fde38f6 completed March 21, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:15 p.m.