Triple

T1222630
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stevens E26256 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Stevens (engineer)
John Stevens was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering early steam locomotive and railroad development in the United States.
 E143299 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: John Stevens (engineer) | Statement: [Stevens, hasNotableBearer, John Stevens (engineer)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Stevens (engineer)
Context triple: [Stevens, hasNotableBearer, John Stevens (engineer)]
  • A. John Frank Stevens
    John Frank Stevens was an American civil engineer best known for his pivotal role in organizing and directing early construction and infrastructure work on the Panama Canal.
  • B. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
  • C. Silvanus P. Thompson
    Silvanus P. Thompson was a British physicist and electrical engineer known for his influential work in electromagnetism and for popularizing science through his writings and lectures.
  • D. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • 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: John Stevens (engineer)
Triple: [Stevens, hasNotableBearer, John Stevens (engineer)]
Generated description
John Stevens was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering early steam locomotive and railroad development in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Stevens (engineer)
Target entity description: John Stevens was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering early steam locomotive and railroad development in the United States.
  • A. John Frank Stevens
    John Frank Stevens was an American civil engineer best known for his pivotal role in organizing and directing early construction and infrastructure work on the Panama Canal.
  • B. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
  • C. Silvanus P. Thompson
    Silvanus P. Thompson was a British physicist and electrical engineer known for his influential work in electromagnetism and for popularizing science through his writings and lectures.
  • D. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be21a2bc819094b47580d7c5cdf8 completed March 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac93bcdbbc8190a5eb1f4285faa8d4 completed March 7, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9453f4488190a13ebabf3c8e07a5 completed March 7, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac952f74d48190b075919e0acd513d completed March 7, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.