Triple

T8140581
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South Carolina delegation to the Continental Congress E190085 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Thomas Lynch Sr.
Thomas Lynch Sr. was an American planter and politician from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the early stages of the American Revolution.
E715692 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: Thomas Lynch Sr. | Statement: [South Carolina delegation to the Continental Congress, hasMember, Thomas Lynch Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Lynch Sr.
Context triple: [South Carolina delegation to the Continental Congress, hasMember, Thomas Lynch Sr.]
  • A. Thomas Lynch Jr.
    Thomas Lynch Jr. was an American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence who represented South Carolina during the Revolutionary era.
  • B. Samuel Johnston
    Samuel Johnston was an American lawyer, statesman, and early political leader from North Carolina who served as governor of the state and as a U.S. senator after the Revolutionary War.
  • C. William Hooper Councill
    William Hooper Councill was a 19th-century African American educator, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who became a prominent leader in Black higher education in the post-Civil War South.
  • D. James Iredell Sr.
    James Iredell Sr. was an influential early American jurist and statesman who served as one of the original Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court and played a key role in shaping constitutional law.
  • E. Thomas Hutchinson
    Thomas Hutchinson was a Loyalist colonial governor and historian of Massachusetts whose staunch support for British authority made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
  • 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: Thomas Lynch Sr.
Triple: [South Carolina delegation to the Continental Congress, hasMember, Thomas Lynch Sr.]
Generated description
Thomas Lynch Sr. was an American planter and politician from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the early stages of the American Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Lynch Sr.
Target entity description: Thomas Lynch Sr. was an American planter and politician from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the early stages of the American Revolution.
  • A. Thomas Lynch Jr.
    Thomas Lynch Jr. was an American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence who represented South Carolina during the Revolutionary era.
  • B. Samuel Johnston
    Samuel Johnston was an American lawyer, statesman, and early political leader from North Carolina who served as governor of the state and as a U.S. senator after the Revolutionary War.
  • C. William Hooper Councill
    William Hooper Councill was a 19th-century African American educator, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who became a prominent leader in Black higher education in the post-Civil War South.
  • D. James Iredell Sr.
    James Iredell Sr. was an influential early American jurist and statesman who served as one of the original Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court and played a key role in shaping constitutional law.
  • E. Thomas Hutchinson
    Thomas Hutchinson was a Loyalist colonial governor and historian of Massachusetts whose staunch support for British authority made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
  • 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_69ca82bd9900819099477cdc2eb4244f completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb4404e5308190a323485701f09d86 completed March 31, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccbed2abb881908107fdc5a8092aab completed April 1, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccc30f1fc48190991e0caa9ea6e735 completed April 1, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ccd7eca618819081e0c5452c8b1960 completed April 1, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:36 p.m.