Triple

T10204154
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Winston & Strawn E238959 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Silas H. Strawn
Silas H. Strawn was an American lawyer and prominent managing partner who helped build Winston & Strawn into a major national law firm in the early 20th century.
E945091 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: Silas H. Strawn | Statement: [Winston & Strawn, foundedBy, Silas H. Strawn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas H. Strawn
Context triple: [Winston & Strawn, foundedBy, Silas H. Strawn]
  • A. Erskine Sanford
    Erskine Sanford was an American character actor best known for his work with Orson Welles, including his role as the bumbling reporter Herbert Carter in the film "Citizen Kane."
  • B. Samuel William Boynton
    Samuel William Boynton was the husband and civil rights partner of activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, with whom he worked to advance voting rights for African Americans in the American South.
  • C. John P. Davis
    John P. Davis was an African American editor, lawyer, and civil rights activist known for his role in early 20th-century Black radical and intellectual movements.
  • D. Cecil H. Underwood
    Cecil H. Underwood was an American naturalist and field collector known for his extensive work on the mammals and birds of Central America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Floyd E. Kellam
    Floyd E. Kellam was a prominent local figure in Virginia Beach, likely a civic leader or educator, for whom Kellam High School was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • 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: Silas H. Strawn
Triple: [Winston & Strawn, foundedBy, Silas H. Strawn]
Generated description
Silas H. Strawn was an American lawyer and prominent managing partner who helped build Winston & Strawn into a major national law firm in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas H. Strawn
Target entity description: Silas H. Strawn was an American lawyer and prominent managing partner who helped build Winston & Strawn into a major national law firm in the early 20th century.
  • A. Erskine Sanford
    Erskine Sanford was an American character actor best known for his work with Orson Welles, including his role as the bumbling reporter Herbert Carter in the film "Citizen Kane."
  • B. Samuel William Boynton
    Samuel William Boynton was the husband and civil rights partner of activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, with whom he worked to advance voting rights for African Americans in the American South.
  • C. John P. Davis
    John P. Davis was an African American editor, lawyer, and civil rights activist known for his role in early 20th-century Black radical and intellectual movements.
  • D. Cecil H. Underwood
    Cecil H. Underwood was an American naturalist and field collector known for his extensive work on the mammals and birds of Central America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Floyd E. Kellam
    Floyd E. Kellam was a prominent local figure in Virginia Beach, likely a civic leader or educator, for whom Kellam High School was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • 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_69ca84e1ea088190b38162e43d4cfa8f completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdeed6fd0081908f8afad1ef4c6bff completed April 2, 2026, 4:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f08ec96fe88190b791e6f50f39173f completed April 28, 2026, 10:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f0bd36673881908530b68e496c3d2e completed April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f0eec1f5d081908624fe2a93995fe5 completed April 28, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:14 p.m.