Triple

T10833374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York Yacht Club E255680 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William H. Aspinwall
William H. Aspinwall was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and shipping magnate known for his key role in developing transoceanic steamship routes and advancing U.S. maritime commerce.
E888310 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: William H. Aspinwall | Statement: [New York Yacht Club, founder, William H. Aspinwall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William H. Aspinwall
Context triple: [New York Yacht Club, founder, William H. Aspinwall]
  • A. Hiram Barney
    Hiram Barney was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and Republican political figure who served in a key federal customs post in New York during the Civil War era.
  • B. Peter Cooper
    Peter Cooper was a 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
  • C. Robert H. Treman
    Robert H. Treman was a prominent Ithaca, New York businessman and conservationist whose philanthropy and land donations helped establish the state park that bears his name.
  • D. Abraham Schermerhorn
    Abraham Schermerhorn was a wealthy New York merchant and prominent member of 19th-century New York society, best known as the father of socialite Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor.
  • E. James Blair
    James Blair is known as the father of American actress Linda Blair, who gained fame for her role in the horror film "The Exorcist."
  • 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: William H. Aspinwall
Triple: [New York Yacht Club, founder, William H. Aspinwall]
Generated description
William H. Aspinwall was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and shipping magnate known for his key role in developing transoceanic steamship routes and advancing U.S. maritime commerce.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William H. Aspinwall
Target entity description: William H. Aspinwall was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and shipping magnate known for his key role in developing transoceanic steamship routes and advancing U.S. maritime commerce.
  • A. Hiram Barney
    Hiram Barney was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and Republican political figure who served in a key federal customs post in New York during the Civil War era.
  • B. Peter Cooper
    Peter Cooper was a 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
  • C. Robert H. Treman
    Robert H. Treman was a prominent Ithaca, New York businessman and conservationist whose philanthropy and land donations helped establish the state park that bears his name.
  • D. Abraham Schermerhorn
    Abraham Schermerhorn was a wealthy New York merchant and prominent member of 19th-century New York society, best known as the father of socialite Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor.
  • E. James Blair
    James Blair is known as the father of American actress Linda Blair, who gained fame for her role in the horror film "The Exorcist."
  • 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_69d6aa81a5d08190aa86689061d1ddd2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7442439dc8190af59f9c8d0637c01 completed April 9, 2026, 6:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de85aa5ea88190ab6399e46eba5c49 completed April 14, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de8e70da448190b80068fea047a88c completed April 14, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de94dd45548190a88b5ab991756d12 completed April 14, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:19 p.m.