Triple

T11548193
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York World's Fair (1939–1940) E273823 entity
Predicate chairman P377 FINISHED
Object Grover Whalen
Grover Whalen was a prominent New York City businessman and public official best known for organizing major civic events and serving as the public face of the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair.
E1109059 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: Grover Whalen | Statement: [New York World's Fair (1939–1940), chairman, Grover Whalen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grover Whalen
Context triple: [New York World's Fair (1939–1940), chairman, Grover Whalen]
  • A. Grover Maxwell
    Grover Maxwell was an American philosopher of science known for his influential work on scientific realism and the nature of theoretical entities.
  • B. John Swett
    John Swett was a prominent 19th-century American educator and reformer often regarded as the "father of the California public school system."
  • C. Russell Harlan
    Russell Harlan was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including "Witness for the Prosecution," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "Red River."
  • D. Howard Sprague
    Howard Sprague is a mild-mannered, bookish county clerk and later bureaucrat character from the classic American television series "The Andy Griffith Show" and its spin-offs, set in the fictional town of Mayberry.
  • E. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • 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: Grover Whalen
Triple: [New York World's Fair (1939–1940), chairman, Grover Whalen]
Generated description
Grover Whalen was a prominent New York City businessman and public official best known for organizing major civic events and serving as the public face of the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grover Whalen
Target entity description: Grover Whalen was a prominent New York City businessman and public official best known for organizing major civic events and serving as the public face of the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair.
  • A. Grover Maxwell
    Grover Maxwell was an American philosopher of science known for his influential work on scientific realism and the nature of theoretical entities.
  • B. John Swett
    John Swett was a prominent 19th-century American educator and reformer often regarded as the "father of the California public school system."
  • C. Russell Harlan
    Russell Harlan was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including "Witness for the Prosecution," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "Red River."
  • D. Howard Sprague
    Howard Sprague is a mild-mannered, bookish county clerk and later bureaucrat character from the classic American television series "The Andy Griffith Show" and its spin-offs, set in the fictional town of Mayberry.
  • E. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • 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_69d6aae4dfa48190a3ab0b19a159a3c5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d886e615b08190a072924329a94a6a completed April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd9495b9748190905b02621939b326 completed May 8, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd9619f33881908e8d95ef09256d34 completed May 8, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd96e97ec48190aae9b25ce7154802 completed May 8, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.