Triple

T9086422
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Paulding Jr. E217765 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object John Paulding
John Paulding was an American militiaman during the Revolutionary War best known as one of the three captors of British Major John André, helping to expose Benedict Arnold’s treason.
E777339 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 Paulding | Statement: [William Paulding Jr., relative, John Paulding]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Paulding
Context triple: [William Paulding Jr., relative, John Paulding]
  • A. William Paulding Jr.
    William Paulding Jr. was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of New York City and later owned the historic Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York.
  • B. Elkin Mathews
    Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
  • C. John Milledge
    John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
  • D. James Kirke Paulding
    James Kirke Paulding was a 19th-century American writer and politician known for his satirical and nationalist literature and for serving as U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
  • E. James Maury
    James Maury was an early American diplomat who served as the first U.S. consul in Liverpool, England, playing a key role in fostering Anglo-American trade relations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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 Paulding
Triple: [William Paulding Jr., relative, John Paulding]
Generated description
John Paulding was an American militiaman during the Revolutionary War best known as one of the three captors of British Major John André, helping to expose Benedict Arnold’s treason.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Paulding
Target entity description: John Paulding was an American militiaman during the Revolutionary War best known as one of the three captors of British Major John André, helping to expose Benedict Arnold’s treason.
  • A. William Paulding Jr.
    William Paulding Jr. was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of New York City and later owned the historic Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York.
  • B. Elkin Mathews
    Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
  • C. John Milledge
    John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
  • D. James Kirke Paulding
    James Kirke Paulding was a 19th-century American writer and politician known for his satirical and nationalist literature and for serving as U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
  • E. James Maury
    James Maury was an early American diplomat who served as the first U.S. consul in Liverpool, England, playing a key role in fostering Anglo-American trade relations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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_69ca83d7a0388190ba1af89ed7ba36f9 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc9654cb3c819089fa8c0ab0841c81 completed April 1, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d017c893fc819087d18db2383b9bb4 completed April 3, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d01908d7b08190ab159048f25924d5 completed April 3, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d019b9be10819091e25d5b3a8d26c1 completed April 3, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:13 p.m.