Triple

T1296886
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frederick W. Smith E27671 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Richard W. Smith
Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
 E296725 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: Richard W. Smith | Statement: [Frederick W. Smith, hasChild, Richard W. Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard W. Smith
Context triple: [Frederick W. Smith, hasChild, Richard W. Smith]
  • A. Adrian D. Smith
    Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
  • B. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • D. Donald W. Loveland
    Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
  • E. Frederick W. Lander
    Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
  • 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: Richard W. Smith
Triple: [Frederick W. Smith, hasChild, Richard W. Smith]
Generated description
Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard W. Smith
Target entity description: Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • A. Adrian D. Smith
    Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
  • B. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • D. Donald W. Loveland
    Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
  • E. Frederick W. Lander
    Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
  • 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_69a496d6682881909ba658f1c1e0e2b0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0f591ec819084f01f518c332880 completed March 1, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc00ddbf48190866fb79b4b4a2857 completed March 10, 2026, 6:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc071e5e88190b353ed29d98d347f completed March 10, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc133f8088190bd505db0d0d1d6f7 completed March 10, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.