Triple

T11102044
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ferris State University E262534 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Woodbridge N. Ferris
Woodbridge N. Ferris was an American educator and politician who founded Ferris State University and later served as both governor of Michigan and a U.S. senator.
E904683 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: Woodbridge N. Ferris | Statement: [Ferris State University, founder, Woodbridge N. Ferris]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Woodbridge N. Ferris
Context triple: [Ferris State University, founder, Woodbridge N. Ferris]
  • A. Roy D. Chapin
    Roy D. Chapin was an American industrialist and co-founder of the Hudson Motor Car Company who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Herbert Hoover.
  • B. Roy D. Chapin Jr.
    Roy D. Chapin Jr. was an American automotive executive best known for leading American Motors Corporation as its chief executive during the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • C. George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
    George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. was an American civil engineer best known for inventing and designing the original Ferris wheel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
  • D. George Washington Gale Ferris Sr.
    George Washington Gale Ferris Sr. was the father of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., the American engineer best known for inventing the Ferris wheel.
  • E. John Knowles Fitch
    John Knowles Fitch was an American financial analyst and entrepreneur best known for establishing the Fitch credit rating agency, one of the major global credit rating institutions.
  • 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: Woodbridge N. Ferris
Triple: [Ferris State University, founder, Woodbridge N. Ferris]
Generated description
Woodbridge N. Ferris was an American educator and politician who founded Ferris State University and later served as both governor of Michigan and a U.S. senator.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Woodbridge N. Ferris
Target entity description: Woodbridge N. Ferris was an American educator and politician who founded Ferris State University and later served as both governor of Michigan and a U.S. senator.
  • A. Roy D. Chapin
    Roy D. Chapin was an American industrialist and co-founder of the Hudson Motor Car Company who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Herbert Hoover.
  • B. Roy D. Chapin Jr.
    Roy D. Chapin Jr. was an American automotive executive best known for leading American Motors Corporation as its chief executive during the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • C. George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
    George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. was an American civil engineer best known for inventing and designing the original Ferris wheel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
  • D. George Washington Gale Ferris Sr.
    George Washington Gale Ferris Sr. was the father of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., the American engineer best known for inventing the Ferris wheel.
  • E. John Knowles Fitch
    John Knowles Fitch was an American financial analyst and entrepreneur best known for establishing the Fitch credit rating agency, one of the major global credit rating institutions.
  • 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_69d79a2ab09081908ffce2df8912b657 completed April 9, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3e7f9b46881909761ed448fa5ce6e completed April 18, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3f2cc9b7c8190bb5fd89f239917cf completed April 18, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3f4a37b6c81908ca63270d82579ae completed April 18, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.