Triple

T1134384
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lenox Library, New York City E23104 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object James Lenox
James Lenox was a 19th-century American bibliophile and philanthropist best known for creating one of New York City’s earliest major research libraries, which later became part of the New York Public Library.
E131012 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: James Lenox | Statement: [Lenox Library, New York City, founder, James Lenox]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Lenox
Context triple: [Lenox Library, New York City, founder, James Lenox]
  • A. William Draper
    William Draper was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading British forces in the capture of Manila during the Seven Years' War.
  • B. Abbott Lawrence
    Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
  • C. William F. Lamb
    William F. Lamb was an American architect best known as the principal designer of the Empire State Building and a leading partner in the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.
  • D. Harry Elkins Widener
    Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
  • E. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • 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: James Lenox
Triple: [Lenox Library, New York City, founder, James Lenox]
Generated description
James Lenox was a 19th-century American bibliophile and philanthropist best known for creating one of New York City’s earliest major research libraries, which later became part of the New York Public Library.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Lenox
Target entity description: James Lenox was a 19th-century American bibliophile and philanthropist best known for creating one of New York City’s earliest major research libraries, which later became part of the New York Public Library.
  • A. William Draper
    William Draper was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading British forces in the capture of Manila during the Seven Years' War.
  • B. Abbott Lawrence
    Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
  • C. William F. Lamb
    William F. Lamb was an American architect best known as the principal designer of the Empire State Building and a leading partner in the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.
  • D. Harry Elkins Widener
    Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
  • E. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • 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_69a493ec75988190b63a11bafaec29b4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbfffaa48190b2534ff4da3544ce completed March 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac59ac2ea881908b9559ff9d47077a completed March 7, 2026, 5 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5a38ebb0819091cb81e23770ae50 completed March 7, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5aa2ad188190b4c6a29e3c2c8d79 completed March 7, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.