Triple

T1169228
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Tobacco Company E24875 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Benjamin Newton Duke
Benjamin Newton Duke was an American industrialist and philanthropist from the prominent Duke family who helped build a tobacco and textile empire and endowed major educational and charitable institutions, including what became Duke University.
 E135133 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: Benjamin Newton Duke | Statement: [American Tobacco Company, founder, Benjamin Newton Duke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin Newton Duke
Context triple: [American Tobacco Company, founder, Benjamin Newton Duke]
  • A. George Washington Vanderbilt II
    George Washington Vanderbilt II was an American art collector and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family best known for building the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina.
  • B. James Buchanan Duke
    James Buchanan Duke was an American industrialist and philanthropist whose fortune from tobacco and electric power helped establish and endow Duke University.
  • C. James Hillier Blount
    James Hillier Blount, better known as James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter and former British Army officer famed for his hit ballad "You're Beautiful."
  • D. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • E. Alfred I. du Pont
    Alfred I. du Pont was an American industrialist and philanthropist from the prominent du Pont family, known for his leadership in the family’s chemical business and his extensive charitable work, particularly in Delaware and Florida.
  • 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: Benjamin Newton Duke
Triple: [American Tobacco Company, founder, Benjamin Newton Duke]
Generated description
Benjamin Newton Duke was an American industrialist and philanthropist from the prominent Duke family who helped build a tobacco and textile empire and endowed major educational and charitable institutions, including what became Duke University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin Newton Duke
Target entity description: Benjamin Newton Duke was an American industrialist and philanthropist from the prominent Duke family who helped build a tobacco and textile empire and endowed major educational and charitable institutions, including what became Duke University.
  • A. George Washington Vanderbilt II
    George Washington Vanderbilt II was an American art collector and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family best known for building the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina.
  • B. James Buchanan Duke
    James Buchanan Duke was an American industrialist and philanthropist whose fortune from tobacco and electric power helped establish and endow Duke University.
  • C. James Hillier Blount
    James Hillier Blount, better known as James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter and former British Army officer famed for his hit ballad "You're Beautiful."
  • D. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • E. Alfred I. du Pont
    Alfred I. du Pont was an American industrialist and philanthropist from the prominent du Pont family, known for his leadership in the family’s chemical business and his extensive charitable work, particularly in Delaware and Florida.
  • 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_69a494082a7c819095004f423f294a64 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bce821b481908bc278a3fa7973f4 completed March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac6f17aa608190920b7df62b8dd903 completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac6fc5442c8190a5d824881f05d468 completed March 7, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac7026dda48190a72f671dba9ac17b completed March 7, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.