Triple

T1169229
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Tobacco Company E24875 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object George Washington Watts
George Washington Watts was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping build the tobacco empire that shaped Durham, North Carolina’s early economic growth.
E133671 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: George Washington Watts | Statement: [American Tobacco Company, founder, George Washington Watts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Washington Watts
Context triple: [American Tobacco Company, founder, George Washington Watts]
  • A. George Richmond
    George Richmond is a British cinematographer known for his dynamic visual work on action films such as "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
  • B. Frederic Sandys
    Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
  • C. John Everett Millais
    John Everett Millais was a leading 19th-century British painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, renowned for his highly detailed, emotionally charged works such as "Ophelia."
  • D. Arthur Hughes
    Arthur Hughes was a 19th-century English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his poetic, detailed, and often romantic works.
  • E. Walter Sickert
    Walter Sickert was a British painter and printmaker associated with the Camden Town Group, known for his atmospheric urban scenes and influential role in the development of modern British art.
  • 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: George Washington Watts
Triple: [American Tobacco Company, founder, George Washington Watts]
Generated description
George Washington Watts was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping build the tobacco empire that shaped Durham, North Carolina’s early economic growth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Washington Watts
Target entity description: George Washington Watts was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping build the tobacco empire that shaped Durham, North Carolina’s early economic growth.
  • A. George Richmond
    George Richmond is a British cinematographer known for his dynamic visual work on action films such as "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
  • B. Frederic Sandys
    Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
  • C. John Everett Millais
    John Everett Millais was a leading 19th-century British painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, renowned for his highly detailed, emotionally charged works such as "Ophelia."
  • D. Arthur Hughes
    Arthur Hughes was a 19th-century English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his poetic, detailed, and often romantic works.
  • E. Walter Sickert
    Walter Sickert was a British painter and printmaker associated with the Camden Town Group, known for his atmospheric urban scenes and influential role in the development of modern British art.
  • 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_69ac668562788190ac5f8d081a46b2ee completed March 7, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac67a07f28819096fcd7b767e07a63 completed March 7, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac6826ef4c81909fc077bfba22b16f completed March 7, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.