Triple

T1169230
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Tobacco Company E24875 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William A. Guthrie
William A. Guthrie was an American businessman best known for establishing the influential American Tobacco Company during the late 19th century.
 E302074 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 A. Guthrie | Statement: [American Tobacco Company, founder, William A. Guthrie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William A. Guthrie
Context triple: [American Tobacco Company, founder, William A. Guthrie]
  • A. John H. Traylor
    John H. Traylor was an American politician who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, in the late 19th century.
  • B. James Lick Robnett
    James Lick Robnett is an individual whose personal name is associated with the surname Robnett.
  • C. Carl J. Kilpatrick
    Carl J. Kilpatrick is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Kilpatrick, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • D. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • E. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • 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 A. Guthrie
Triple: [American Tobacco Company, founder, William A. Guthrie]
Generated description
William A. Guthrie was an American businessman best known for establishing the influential American Tobacco Company during the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William A. Guthrie
Target entity description: William A. Guthrie was an American businessman best known for establishing the influential American Tobacco Company during the late 19th century.
  • A. John H. Traylor
    John H. Traylor was an American politician who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, in the late 19th century.
  • B. James Lick Robnett
    James Lick Robnett is an individual whose personal name is associated with the surname Robnett.
  • C. Carl J. Kilpatrick
    Carl J. Kilpatrick is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Kilpatrick, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • D. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • E. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • 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_69afce6b95608190b4c15922cc3dd9f2 completed March 10, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afcfc1128c8190b043a761833a3639 completed March 10, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afd0219b34819095bc98ba28ca97f5 completed March 10, 2026, 8:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.