Triple

T9483705
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pe̍h-ōe-jī E228708 entity
Predicate notableContributor P304 FINISHED
Object John Van Nest Talmage
John Van Nest Talmage was a 19th-century American missionary and linguist known for his influential work on the Amoy dialect and contributions to the development and promotion of the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Southern Min Chinese.
E802131 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 Van Nest Talmage | Statement: [Pe̍h-ōe-jī, notableContributor, John Van Nest Talmage]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Van Nest Talmage
Context triple: [Pe̍h-ōe-jī, notableContributor, John Van Nest Talmage]
  • A. Alfred Corning Clark
    Alfred Corning Clark was a 19th-century American heir, philanthropist, and art patron from the Singer sewing machine fortune, known for his cultural and charitable contributions in New York and Cooperstown.
  • B. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • C. William Maxwell Evarts Perkins
    William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, better known as Maxwell Perkins, was a legendary American book editor famed for nurturing the careers of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
  • D. Francis H. Kimball
    Francis H. Kimball was a prominent late-19th-century American architect known for his innovative skyscraper and commercial building designs, particularly in New York and Philadelphia.
  • E. Peter Bent Brigham
    Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
  • 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 Van Nest Talmage
Triple: [Pe̍h-ōe-jī, notableContributor, John Van Nest Talmage]
Generated description
John Van Nest Talmage was a 19th-century American missionary and linguist known for his influential work on the Amoy dialect and contributions to the development and promotion of the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Southern Min Chinese.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Van Nest Talmage
Target entity description: John Van Nest Talmage was a 19th-century American missionary and linguist known for his influential work on the Amoy dialect and contributions to the development and promotion of the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Southern Min Chinese.
  • A. Alfred Corning Clark
    Alfred Corning Clark was a 19th-century American heir, philanthropist, and art patron from the Singer sewing machine fortune, known for his cultural and charitable contributions in New York and Cooperstown.
  • B. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • C. William Maxwell Evarts Perkins
    William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, better known as Maxwell Perkins, was a legendary American book editor famed for nurturing the careers of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
  • D. Francis H. Kimball
    Francis H. Kimball was a prominent late-19th-century American architect known for his innovative skyscraper and commercial building designs, particularly in New York and Philadelphia.
  • E. Peter Bent Brigham
    Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
  • 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_69ca84730a5081908de282651019bf2f completed March 30, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd804c859081908c261ad16b501f0d completed April 1, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d12d0bf0c08190ab96db3eb522c91e completed April 4, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d12df73e3c819095f69e2b61989bb1 completed April 4, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d12e6ed8988190bd1f4b6881db5e63 completed April 4, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:55 p.m.