Triple

T15540472
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North River Steamboat E370460 entity
Predicate builtBy P972 FINISHED
Object Charles Brown
Charles Brown was a shipbuilder known for constructing the North River Steamboat, one of the earliest commercially successful steamboats in the United States.
E1161608 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: Charles Brown | Statement: [North River Steamboat, builtBy, Charles Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Brown
Context triple: [North River Steamboat, builtBy, Charles Brown]
  • A. Charles Brown
    Charles Brown was an American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter known for his smooth, mellow style and influential holiday recordings in the postwar R&B era.
  • B. Charles Louis Brown
    Charles Louis Brown, better known as Chuck Brown, was an American guitarist, singer, and bandleader widely regarded as the "Godfather of Go-Go" music in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Bobby Byrd
    Bobby Byrd was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and bandleader best known as a key collaborator and founding member of James Brown’s backing group, The Famous Flames.
  • D. Les Brown
    Les Brown was an American jazz bandleader and saxophonist best known for leading the popular big band Les Brown and His Band of Renown, which gained fame in the swing era and through collaborations with entertainers like Doris Day and Bob Hope.
  • E. C. L. Franklin
    C. L. Franklin was a prominent American Baptist minister and civil rights activist renowned for his charismatic preaching and as the father of soul singer Aretha Franklin.
  • 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: Charles Brown
Triple: [North River Steamboat, builtBy, Charles Brown]
Generated description
Charles Brown was a shipbuilder known for constructing the North River Steamboat, one of the earliest commercially successful steamboats in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Brown
Target entity description: Charles Brown was a shipbuilder known for constructing the North River Steamboat, one of the earliest commercially successful steamboats in the United States.
  • A. Charles Brown
    Charles Brown was an American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter known for his smooth, mellow style and influential holiday recordings in the postwar R&B era.
  • B. Charles Louis Brown
    Charles Louis Brown, better known as Chuck Brown, was an American guitarist, singer, and bandleader widely regarded as the "Godfather of Go-Go" music in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Bobby Byrd
    Bobby Byrd was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and bandleader best known as a key collaborator and founding member of James Brown’s backing group, The Famous Flames.
  • D. Les Brown
    Les Brown was an American jazz bandleader and saxophonist best known for leading the popular big band Les Brown and His Band of Renown, which gained fame in the swing era and through collaborations with entertainers like Doris Day and Bob Hope.
  • E. C. L. Franklin
    C. L. Franklin was a prominent American Baptist minister and civil rights activist renowned for his charismatic preaching and as the father of soul singer Aretha Franklin.
  • 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_69d85cc521a08190921fb50319dddc34 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04430b5188190a555a3cd4fb0c61c completed April 16, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff3d6396f08190a09253ac63110384 completed May 9, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff3de663848190936a5b1d31d18c75 completed May 9, 2026, 2 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff3e8c5f308190a335dbc45f9d88ee completed May 9, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:07 a.m.