Triple

T1074991
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tribune Tower E23815 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object John Mead Howells
John Mead Howells was an American architect best known for his influential skyscraper designs in the early 20th century and his role in shaping Chicago’s and New York’s urban skylines.
E149873 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 Mead Howells | Statement: [Tribune Tower, architect, John Mead Howells]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Mead Howells
Context triple: [Tribune Tower, architect, John Mead Howells]
  • A. Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
  • B. William Beecher
    William Beecher was a member of the prominent 19th-century Beecher family, known for its influential religious and social reform figures in American history.
  • C. Edwin Thomas Meredith
    Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • D. Booth Tarkington
    Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and playwright best known for his early 20th-century portrayals of Midwestern American life and for works such as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams."
  • E. Henry James Sr.
    Henry James Sr. was a 19th-century American theologian and Swedenborgian philosopher, best known as the intellectually influential father of novelist Henry James and psychologist William James.
  • 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 Mead Howells
Triple: [Tribune Tower, architect, John Mead Howells]
Generated description
John Mead Howells was an American architect best known for his influential skyscraper designs in the early 20th century and his role in shaping Chicago’s and New York’s urban skylines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Mead Howells
Target entity description: John Mead Howells was an American architect best known for his influential skyscraper designs in the early 20th century and his role in shaping Chicago’s and New York’s urban skylines.
  • A. Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
  • B. William Beecher
    William Beecher was a member of the prominent 19th-century Beecher family, known for its influential religious and social reform figures in American history.
  • C. Edwin Thomas Meredith
    Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • D. Booth Tarkington
    Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and playwright best known for his early 20th-century portrayals of Midwestern American life and for works such as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams."
  • E. Henry James Sr.
    Henry James Sr. was a 19th-century American theologian and Swedenborgian philosopher, best known as the intellectually influential father of novelist Henry James and psychologist William James.
  • 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_69a493f1ddf48190a99d54b00e99f8ce completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b92e480c81909a848b48c196a293 completed March 1, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbad845648190a3ee31506ac1a84c completed March 7, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbb7f877081909fad30dac9254a34 completed March 7, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acbbdbab04819087b42477acbbb5f4 completed March 7, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.