Triple

T9195364
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Desire Howland E220691 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Joseph Howland
Joseph Howland was a 19th-century American Civil War officer, politician, and philanthropist from New York.
E786744 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: Joseph Howland | Statement: [Desire Howland, sibling, Joseph Howland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Howland
Context triple: [Desire Howland, sibling, Joseph Howland]
  • A. Joseph Howland
    Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
  • B. James R. Osgood
    James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
  • C. William Howland
    William Howland was a 19th-century American seafarer after whom the remote Pacific territory Howland Island was named.
  • D. Charles Wolcott
    Charles Wolcott was an American composer and music director best known for his work on numerous Walt Disney animated films in the 1940s.
  • E. Henry Varnum Poor
    Henry Varnum Poor was a 19th-century American financial analyst and publisher whose work in railroad investment reporting laid the foundation for the modern credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s.
  • 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: Joseph Howland
Triple: [Desire Howland, sibling, Joseph Howland]
Generated description
Joseph Howland was a 19th-century American Civil War officer, politician, and philanthropist from New York.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Howland
Target entity description: Joseph Howland was a 19th-century American Civil War officer, politician, and philanthropist from New York.
  • A. Joseph Howland
    Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
  • B. James R. Osgood
    James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
  • C. William Howland
    William Howland was a 19th-century American seafarer after whom the remote Pacific territory Howland Island was named.
  • D. Charles Wolcott
    Charles Wolcott was an American composer and music director best known for his work on numerous Walt Disney animated films in the 1940s.
  • E. Henry Varnum Poor
    Henry Varnum Poor was a 19th-century American financial analyst and publisher whose work in railroad investment reporting laid the foundation for the modern credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s.
  • 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_69ca83e7ba70819088b74866d9da2c30 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccd87c3a3c8190b60f19873ef6e1f8 completed April 1, 2026, 8:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d077797be081908300a5baa0041ce5 completed April 4, 2026, 2:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d078c3d0348190abc0f4108e4f8192 completed April 4, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d07923bef48190a6c949d4fedc1342 completed April 4, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:25 p.m.