Triple

T14722127
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal Alexandra Theatre E345841 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object C. J. (Charles) Whitney
C. J. (Charles) Whitney was a theatre impresario and businessman best known for establishing Toronto’s historic Royal Alexandra Theatre.
 E1132822 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: C. J. (Charles) Whitney | Statement: [Royal Alexandra Theatre, foundedBy, C. J. (Charles) Whitney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: C. J. (Charles) Whitney
Context triple: [Royal Alexandra Theatre, foundedBy, C. J. (Charles) Whitney]
  • A. John R. Whitney
    John R. Whitney is an American businessman best known as the founder of Interactive Data Corporation, a major provider of financial market data and analytics.
  • B. C. V. Whitney
    C. V. Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, and prominent member of the wealthy Whitney family, known for his involvement in both the motion picture industry and thoroughbred horse racing.
  • C. Roy D. Chapin
    Roy D. Chapin was an American industrialist and co-founder of the Hudson Motor Car Company who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Herbert Hoover.
  • D. Roy D. Chapin Jr.
    Roy D. Chapin Jr. was an American automotive executive best known for leading American Motors Corporation as its chief executive during the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • E. John Hay Whitney
    John Hay Whitney was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, and prominent art collector who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and owned the New York Herald Tribune.
  • 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: C. J. (Charles) Whitney
Triple: [Royal Alexandra Theatre, foundedBy, C. J. (Charles) Whitney]
Generated description
C. J. (Charles) Whitney was a theatre impresario and businessman best known for establishing Toronto’s historic Royal Alexandra Theatre.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: C. J. (Charles) Whitney
Target entity description: C. J. (Charles) Whitney was a theatre impresario and businessman best known for establishing Toronto’s historic Royal Alexandra Theatre.
  • A. John R. Whitney
    John R. Whitney is an American businessman best known as the founder of Interactive Data Corporation, a major provider of financial market data and analytics.
  • B. C. V. Whitney
    C. V. Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, and prominent member of the wealthy Whitney family, known for his involvement in both the motion picture industry and thoroughbred horse racing.
  • C. Roy D. Chapin
    Roy D. Chapin was an American industrialist and co-founder of the Hudson Motor Car Company who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Herbert Hoover.
  • D. Roy D. Chapin Jr.
    Roy D. Chapin Jr. was an American automotive executive best known for leading American Motors Corporation as its chief executive during the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • E. John Hay Whitney
    John Hay Whitney was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, and prominent art collector who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and owned the New York Herald Tribune.
  • 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_69d822e5911c8190ba589f957dbd9ba7 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dec25d56fc8190871873ca55d49272 completed April 14, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe9dba87c481908084c3cba5df3fcd completed May 9, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe9e41de7c8190a2c2ce525d04fb49 completed May 9, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe9edd6fac8190907cdadb0de02d63 completed May 9, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:29 a.m.