Triple

T14722441
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Palm Springs Aerial Tramway E345848 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object Francis Crocker
Francis Crocker was an American engineer best known for conceiving and helping develop the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in California.
 E1181695 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: Francis Crocker | Statement: [Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, designer, Francis Crocker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Francis Crocker
Context triple: [Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, designer, Francis Crocker]
  • A. George Crocker
    George Crocker was an American financier and railroad executive, known as the son and heir of railroad magnate Charles Crocker and for his significant philanthropic activities.
  • B. Alvah Crocker
    Alvah Crocker was a 19th-century American industrialist and politician known for his leadership in the paper manufacturing industry and his role in developing railroad infrastructure in New England.
  • C. William Crosley
    William Crosley was a 19th-century civil engineer known for his work on English canal projects, including the Macclesfield Canal.
  • D. Benjamin Sherman Crothers
    Benjamin Sherman Crothers, better known as Scatman Crothers, was an American actor, singer, and musician renowned for his roles in films like "The Shining" and his distinctive voice work in animated productions.
  • E. John Taintor Foote
    John Taintor Foote was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter known for his stories about horse racing and his work on several classic Hollywood films.
  • 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: Francis Crocker
Triple: [Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, designer, Francis Crocker]
Generated description
Francis Crocker was an American engineer best known for conceiving and helping develop the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in California.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Francis Crocker
Target entity description: Francis Crocker was an American engineer best known for conceiving and helping develop the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in California.
  • A. George Crocker
    George Crocker was an American financier and railroad executive, known as the son and heir of railroad magnate Charles Crocker and for his significant philanthropic activities.
  • B. Alvah Crocker
    Alvah Crocker was a 19th-century American industrialist and politician known for his leadership in the paper manufacturing industry and his role in developing railroad infrastructure in New England.
  • C. William Crosley
    William Crosley was a 19th-century civil engineer known for his work on English canal projects, including the Macclesfield Canal.
  • D. Benjamin Sherman Crothers
    Benjamin Sherman Crothers, better known as Scatman Crothers, was an American actor, singer, and musician renowned for his roles in films like "The Shining" and his distinctive voice work in animated productions.
  • E. John Taintor Foote
    John Taintor Foote was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter known for his stories about horse racing and his work on several classic Hollywood films.
  • 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_69ffa929b0b88190ad40d54ba4ef478a completed May 9, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffaa1793c881909bb08099bb8b1faa completed May 9, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffaa973274819080889e1b9883b8dc completed May 9, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:29 a.m.