Triple

T1415267
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colorado Springs, Colorado E31900 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Jackson Palmer
William Jackson Palmer was a 19th-century American civil engineer, railroad builder, and philanthropist who played a key role in developing the American West.
 E164778 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 Jackson Palmer | Statement: [Colorado Springs, Colorado, foundedBy, William Jackson Palmer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Jackson Palmer
Context triple: [Colorado Springs, Colorado, foundedBy, William Jackson Palmer]
  • A. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • B. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • C. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • D. Sanford Robinson Gifford
    Sanford Robinson Gifford was a 19th-century American landscape painter renowned for his luminous, atmospheric scenes that made him a leading figure in the Hudson River School.
  • E. James Lick Robnett
    James Lick Robnett is an individual whose personal name is associated with the surname Robnett.
  • 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 Jackson Palmer
Triple: [Colorado Springs, Colorado, foundedBy, William Jackson Palmer]
Generated description
William Jackson Palmer was a 19th-century American civil engineer, railroad builder, and philanthropist who played a key role in developing the American West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Jackson Palmer
Target entity description: William Jackson Palmer was a 19th-century American civil engineer, railroad builder, and philanthropist who played a key role in developing the American West.
  • A. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • B. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • C. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • D. Sanford Robinson Gifford
    Sanford Robinson Gifford was a 19th-century American landscape painter renowned for his luminous, atmospheric scenes that made him a leading figure in the Hudson River School.
  • E. James Lick Robnett
    James Lick Robnett is an individual whose personal name is associated with the surname Robnett.
  • 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_69a49919a994819086528951bc224775 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c402b1648190b87802d9beb2712e completed March 1, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad08ae530081909695bde0d9c46d41 completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0975b0c4819095a36f833e15fdae completed March 8, 2026, 5:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0a1df32c81908bf57911901f3f9c completed March 8, 2026, 5:33 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.