Triple

T15261904
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cyrus West Field E364797 entity
Predicate businessPartner P282 FINISHED
Object William E. Dodge
William E. Dodge was a prominent 19th-century American businessman, philanthropist, and politician known for his leadership in the copper and railroad industries and his advocacy for social reform.
 E1161376 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 E. Dodge | Statement: [Cyrus West Field, businessPartner, William E. Dodge]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William E. Dodge
Context triple: [Cyrus West Field, businessPartner, William E. Dodge]
  • A. William G. Fargo
    William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
  • B. Cleveland H. Dodge
    Cleveland H. Dodge was an American philanthropist and businessman known for his significant charitable contributions, including helping to establish major health organizations.
  • C. Augustus C. Dodge
    Augustus C. Dodge was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Iowa known for his role in westward expansion and territorial governance.
  • D. George M. Dodge
    George M. Dodge was a prominent figure in American frontier history whose influence and legacy led to the naming of Dodge City, Kansas in his honor.
  • E. William K. Howard
    William K. Howard was an American film director of the silent and early sound eras, known for his sophisticated visual style and work across drama, comedy, and crime films in Hollywood.
  • 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 E. Dodge
Triple: [Cyrus West Field, businessPartner, William E. Dodge]
Generated description
William E. Dodge was a prominent 19th-century American businessman, philanthropist, and politician known for his leadership in the copper and railroad industries and his advocacy for social reform.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William E. Dodge
Target entity description: William E. Dodge was a prominent 19th-century American businessman, philanthropist, and politician known for his leadership in the copper and railroad industries and his advocacy for social reform.
  • A. William G. Fargo
    William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
  • B. Cleveland H. Dodge
    Cleveland H. Dodge was an American philanthropist and businessman known for his significant charitable contributions, including helping to establish major health organizations.
  • C. Augustus C. Dodge
    Augustus C. Dodge was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Iowa known for his role in westward expansion and territorial governance.
  • D. George M. Dodge
    George M. Dodge was a prominent figure in American frontier history whose influence and legacy led to the naming of Dodge City, Kansas in his honor.
  • E. William K. Howard
    William K. Howard was an American film director of the silent and early sound eras, known for his sophisticated visual style and work across drama, comedy, and crime films in Hollywood.
  • 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_69d85a0f08408190b3c3259ae35d79d2 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0084e85a08190b8e63598b9f6a535 completed April 15, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff3d3cf84c8190a4655803b12c9721 completed May 9, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff3e05ba088190a49f8a765397923d completed May 9, 2026, 2 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff3e69d7fc8190b8c5f99d3c8158f6 completed May 9, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:14 a.m.