Triple

T10979647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York Highlanders E259466 entity
Predicate owner P347 FINISHED
Object William S. Devery
William S. Devery was a former New York City police chief and Tammany Hall figure who became one of the original co-owners of the franchise that evolved into the New York Yankees.
E1186856 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 S. Devery | Statement: [New York Highlanders, owner, William S. Devery]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Devery
Context triple: [New York Highlanders, owner, William S. Devery]
  • A. John H. Dimond
    John H. Dimond was a prominent Alaskan jurist and early state leader who played a key role in shaping Alaska’s legal and constitutional foundations.
  • B. Melville M. Bigelow
    Melville M. Bigelow was an influential American legal scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his pioneering work in tort law and legal history.
  • C. Charles H. Hackley
    Charles H. Hackley was a prominent 19th-century Muskegon lumber baron and philanthropist known for his extensive civic and cultural contributions to the city.
  • D. Benjamin L. Willard
    Benjamin L. Willard is the troubled U.S. Army officer and central protagonist of the film "Apocalypse Now," tasked with a covert mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
  • E. Lyman G. Bloomingdale
    Lyman G. Bloomingdale was an American businessman and co-founder of the iconic Bloomingdale’s department store, which became a landmark in New York City retail.
  • 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 S. Devery
Triple: [New York Highlanders, owner, William S. Devery]
Generated description
William S. Devery was a former New York City police chief and Tammany Hall figure who became one of the original co-owners of the franchise that evolved into the New York Yankees.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Devery
Target entity description: William S. Devery was a former New York City police chief and Tammany Hall figure who became one of the original co-owners of the franchise that evolved into the New York Yankees.
  • A. John H. Dimond
    John H. Dimond was a prominent Alaskan jurist and early state leader who played a key role in shaping Alaska’s legal and constitutional foundations.
  • B. Melville M. Bigelow
    Melville M. Bigelow was an influential American legal scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his pioneering work in tort law and legal history.
  • C. Charles H. Hackley
    Charles H. Hackley was a prominent 19th-century Muskegon lumber baron and philanthropist known for his extensive civic and cultural contributions to the city.
  • D. Benjamin L. Willard
    Benjamin L. Willard is the troubled U.S. Army officer and central protagonist of the film "Apocalypse Now," tasked with a covert mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
  • E. Lyman G. Bloomingdale
    Lyman G. Bloomingdale was an American businessman and co-founder of the iconic Bloomingdale’s department store, which became a landmark in New York City retail.
  • 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_69d6aa895f4c8190887a15460ef622f4 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d772e97cf88190a65dab3ec4e5f7f3 completed April 9, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffbe5eeba08190849171d079745d1a completed May 9, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffbf70d6488190944986503882678d completed May 9, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffc08179488190a8f434121bede859 completed May 9, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:24 p.m.