Triple

T11087820
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Henry Vanderbilt III E262166 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Henry Vanderbilt IV
William Henry Vanderbilt IV was an American newspaper publisher and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, known for his role in media and his inheritance of one of the nation’s great fortunes.
E909826 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 Henry Vanderbilt IV | Statement: [William Henry Vanderbilt III, child, William Henry Vanderbilt IV]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Vanderbilt IV
Context triple: [William Henry Vanderbilt III, child, William Henry Vanderbilt IV]
  • A. William Henry Vanderbilt III
    William Henry Vanderbilt III was an American politician and businessman who served as the 59th Governor of Rhode Island from 1939 to 1941 and was a prominent member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family.
  • B. William Henry Vanderbilt II
    William Henry Vanderbilt II was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family and the son of Gilded Age socialite Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt.
  • C. William Kissam Vanderbilt II
    William Kissam Vanderbilt II was an American heir of the Vanderbilt family, noted as a yachtsman, automobile enthusiast, and philanthropist who amassed significant collections that later formed the basis of the Vanderbilt Museum.
  • D. William Henry Vanderbilt
    William Henry Vanderbilt was a 19th-century American businessman and railroad magnate who became one of the wealthiest men in the United States as the principal heir and successor to Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  • E. Cornelius Vanderbilt III
    Cornelius Vanderbilt III was an American military officer, engineer, and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family known for his service in the U.S. Army and his role in high society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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 Henry Vanderbilt IV
Triple: [William Henry Vanderbilt III, child, William Henry Vanderbilt IV]
Generated description
William Henry Vanderbilt IV was an American newspaper publisher and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, known for his role in media and his inheritance of one of the nation’s great fortunes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Vanderbilt IV
Target entity description: William Henry Vanderbilt IV was an American newspaper publisher and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, known for his role in media and his inheritance of one of the nation’s great fortunes.
  • A. William Henry Vanderbilt III
    William Henry Vanderbilt III was an American politician and businessman who served as the 59th Governor of Rhode Island from 1939 to 1941 and was a prominent member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family.
  • B. William Henry Vanderbilt II
    William Henry Vanderbilt II was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family and the son of Gilded Age socialite Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt.
  • C. William Kissam Vanderbilt II
    William Kissam Vanderbilt II was an American heir of the Vanderbilt family, noted as a yachtsman, automobile enthusiast, and philanthropist who amassed significant collections that later formed the basis of the Vanderbilt Museum.
  • D. William Henry Vanderbilt
    William Henry Vanderbilt was a 19th-century American businessman and railroad magnate who became one of the wealthiest men in the United States as the principal heir and successor to Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  • E. Cornelius Vanderbilt III
    Cornelius Vanderbilt III was an American military officer, engineer, and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family known for his service in the U.S. Army and his role in high society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d6aa9a40d88190a373e2c7e48285db completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d799c5008081908f59612243fa4f7a completed April 9, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4832d59c08190ab120b991bc8ed3b completed April 19, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e48715bd2081908774d325db2b6dd5 completed April 19, 2026, 7:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4886c0da881909105b3a45e786ce9 completed April 19, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.