Triple

T1549215
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lorillard Tobacco Company E33048 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Pierre Lorillard II
Pierre Lorillard II was an American tobacco manufacturer and entrepreneur best known for building the Lorillard family business into one of the earliest and most prominent tobacco companies in the United States.
E175755 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: Pierre Lorillard II | Statement: [Lorillard Tobacco Company, foundedBy, Pierre Lorillard II]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pierre Lorillard II
Context triple: [Lorillard Tobacco Company, foundedBy, Pierre Lorillard II]
  • A. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
    Éleuthère Irénée du Pont was a French-American chemist and industrialist who founded the DuPont gunpowder company, which grew into one of the largest and most influential chemical corporations in the United States.
  • B. Henry Overholt
    Henry Overholt was a member of the prominent Overholt family connected to the historic West Overton industrial and distilling complex in Pennsylvania.
  • C. Frederic L. Smith
    Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
  • D. Ethel du Pont
    Ethel du Pont was an American socialite and heiress of the prominent du Pont family who became widely known for her marriage to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
  • E. Pierre S. du Pont
    Pierre S. du Pont was an American industrialist and executive who led the DuPont Company and General Motors, playing a major role in early 20th-century corporate and architectural development.
  • 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: Pierre Lorillard II
Triple: [Lorillard Tobacco Company, foundedBy, Pierre Lorillard II]
Generated description
Pierre Lorillard II was an American tobacco manufacturer and entrepreneur best known for building the Lorillard family business into one of the earliest and most prominent tobacco companies in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pierre Lorillard II
Target entity description: Pierre Lorillard II was an American tobacco manufacturer and entrepreneur best known for building the Lorillard family business into one of the earliest and most prominent tobacco companies in the United States.
  • A. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
    Éleuthère Irénée du Pont was a French-American chemist and industrialist who founded the DuPont gunpowder company, which grew into one of the largest and most influential chemical corporations in the United States.
  • B. Henry Overholt
    Henry Overholt was a member of the prominent Overholt family connected to the historic West Overton industrial and distilling complex in Pennsylvania.
  • C. Frederic L. Smith
    Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
  • D. Ethel du Pont
    Ethel du Pont was an American socialite and heiress of the prominent du Pont family who became widely known for her marriage to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
  • E. Pierre S. du Pont
    Pierre S. du Pont was an American industrialist and executive who led the DuPont Company and General Motors, playing a major role in early 20th-century corporate and architectural development.
  • 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_69a885ee6db8819099502bc5ce8af881 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90857bfb48190a2d66a601d228b72 completed March 5, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad30a29ae88190ab1b2ca97b8ed09c completed March 8, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad3196e92481909bd09e6c765a9698 completed March 8, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad32391ed881909826a80a90f18cb4 completed March 8, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.