Triple

T15097971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Whitney family E360589 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, philanthropist, and prominent figure in thoroughbred horse racing, born into the influential Whitney and Vanderbilt families.
E1136813 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: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney | Statement: [Whitney family, hasNotableMember, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Context triple: [Whitney family, hasNotableMember, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney]
  • A. Cornelius Vanderbilt III
    Cornelius Vanderbilt III was an American military officer, engineer, and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family known for his service in the U.S. Army and his role in high society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Cornelius Vanderbilt II
    Cornelius Vanderbilt II was a prominent American businessman and socialite of the Gilded Age who served as chairman of the New York Central Railroad and was a leading figure in the wealthy Vanderbilt dynasty.
  • C. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
    Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was an American businessman and sportsman from the prominent Vanderbilt dynasty, best remembered for his wealth, philanthropy, and death in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.
  • D. Frederick William Vanderbilt
    Frederick William Vanderbilt was an American railroad executive and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, known for his immense wealth and opulent Gilded Age estates.
  • E. William Henry Vanderbilt
    William Henry Vanderbilt was a 19th-century American businessman and railroad magnate who became one of the wealthiest men in the United States as the principal heir and successor to Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  • 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: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Triple: [Whitney family, hasNotableMember, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney]
Generated description
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, philanthropist, and prominent figure in thoroughbred horse racing, born into the influential Whitney and Vanderbilt families.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Target entity description: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, philanthropist, and prominent figure in thoroughbred horse racing, born into the influential Whitney and Vanderbilt families.
  • A. Cornelius Vanderbilt III
    Cornelius Vanderbilt III was an American military officer, engineer, and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family known for his service in the U.S. Army and his role in high society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Cornelius Vanderbilt II
    Cornelius Vanderbilt II was a prominent American businessman and socialite of the Gilded Age who served as chairman of the New York Central Railroad and was a leading figure in the wealthy Vanderbilt dynasty.
  • C. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
    Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was an American businessman and sportsman from the prominent Vanderbilt dynasty, best remembered for his wealth, philanthropy, and death in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.
  • D. Frederick William Vanderbilt
    Frederick William Vanderbilt was an American railroad executive and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, known for his immense wealth and opulent Gilded Age estates.
  • E. William Henry Vanderbilt
    William Henry Vanderbilt was a 19th-century American businessman and railroad magnate who became one of the wealthiest men in the United States as the principal heir and successor to Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  • 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_69d85a035aa88190b52a139d3a1b7b6d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0054f00388190a5123d9f4a869b96 completed April 15, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69feae230d148190a343ac92fb089902 completed May 9, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69feb0551a508190802f4073fa5ae4b4 completed May 9, 2026, 3:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69feb11fa1b081909243679603194b0b completed May 9, 2026, 3:59 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:04 a.m.