Triple

T1114017
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Willie Sutton E11055 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Francis Sutton Jr.
William Francis Sutton Jr., better known as Willie Sutton, was a notorious American bank robber active in the early to mid-20th century, famed for his numerous escapes from prison and his reputed quip about robbing banks "because that's where the money is."
E211124 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 Francis Sutton Jr. | Statement: [Willie Sutton, fullName, William Francis Sutton Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Francis Sutton Jr.
Context triple: [Willie Sutton, fullName, William Francis Sutton Jr.]
  • A. William Wesley Peters
    William Wesley Peters was an American architect best known as a chief associate and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright and a leading figure at the Taliesin Fellowship.
  • B. Leonard Franklin Slye
    Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
  • C. James T. Sutherland
    James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
  • D. Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
    Arthur E. Bryson Jr. is a pioneering control theorist and aerospace engineer often regarded as a founder of modern optimal control theory.
  • E. Allen Thorndike Rice
    Allen Thorndike Rice was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and publisher best known for revitalizing and expanding the influence of the North American Review.
  • 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 Francis Sutton Jr.
Triple: [Willie Sutton, fullName, William Francis Sutton Jr.]
Generated description
William Francis Sutton Jr., better known as Willie Sutton, was a notorious American bank robber active in the early to mid-20th century, famed for his numerous escapes from prison and his reputed quip about robbing banks "because that's where the money is."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Francis Sutton Jr.
Target entity description: William Francis Sutton Jr., better known as Willie Sutton, was a notorious American bank robber active in the early to mid-20th century, famed for his numerous escapes from prison and his reputed quip about robbing banks "because that's where the money is."
  • A. William Wesley Peters
    William Wesley Peters was an American architect best known as a chief associate and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright and a leading figure at the Taliesin Fellowship.
  • B. Leonard Franklin Slye
    Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
  • C. James T. Sutherland
    James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
  • D. Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
    Arthur E. Bryson Jr. is a pioneering control theorist and aerospace engineer often regarded as a founder of modern optimal control theory.
  • E. Allen Thorndike Rice
    Allen Thorndike Rice was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and publisher best known for revitalizing and expanding the influence of the North American Review.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bba04324819090d2f8fcccc2a4c2 completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adeab2f888819093d2b3e49b105802 completed March 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adeb330fe0819096ac927838b6ee2f completed March 8, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adebb1d7748190b5cd33d163368eae completed March 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.