Triple

T1591104
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wheeling Suspension Bridge E34179 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object Charles Ellet Jr.
Charles Ellet Jr. was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering long-span suspension bridges and innovative military engineering projects during the Civil War.
E188653 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 Ellet Jr. | Statement: [Wheeling Suspension Bridge, designer, Charles Ellet Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Ellet Jr.
Context triple: [Wheeling Suspension Bridge, designer, Charles Ellet Jr.]
  • A. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
  • B. William Lenoir
    William Lenoir was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina statesman who became a prominent political and civic leader in the post-colonial South.
  • C. Melancton Smith
    Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
  • D. John Notman
    John Notman was a 19th-century Scottish-born American architect known for helping introduce the Italianate style to the United States and for designing prominent civic and institutional buildings.
  • E. Leffert L. Buck
    Leffert L. Buck was an American civil engineer known for his pioneering work in long-span bridge design at the turn of the 20th century.
  • 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 Ellet Jr.
Triple: [Wheeling Suspension Bridge, designer, Charles Ellet Jr.]
Generated description
Charles Ellet Jr. was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering long-span suspension bridges and innovative military engineering projects during the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Ellet Jr.
Target entity description: Charles Ellet Jr. was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering long-span suspension bridges and innovative military engineering projects during the Civil War.
  • A. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
  • B. William Lenoir
    William Lenoir was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina statesman who became a prominent political and civic leader in the post-colonial South.
  • C. Melancton Smith
    Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
  • D. John Notman
    John Notman was a 19th-century Scottish-born American architect known for helping introduce the Italianate style to the United States and for designing prominent civic and institutional buildings.
  • E. Leffert L. Buck
    Leffert L. Buck was an American civil engineer known for his pioneering work in long-span bridge design at the turn of the 20th century.
  • 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_69a885fceb2c8190b47e0f7c0aefbff0 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa621526e8819097d8c5330e527ed3 completed March 6, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad680b40908190acf505992848dae9 completed March 8, 2026, 12:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad6c05c69c81908969384b352d3151 completed March 8, 2026, 12:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad6c9596508190aed71ef5b3a2092a completed March 8, 2026, 12:33 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.