Triple

T1657677
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Randolph Hearst E35836 entity
Predicate parent P120 FINISHED
Object George Hearst
George Hearst was a 19th-century American mining magnate, rancher, and politician who amassed a fortune in the mining industry and later served as a U.S. Senator from California.
E188994 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: George Hearst | Statement: [William Randolph Hearst, parent, George Hearst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Hearst
Context triple: [William Randolph Hearst, parent, George Hearst]
  • A. William Randolph Hearst
    William Randolph Hearst was a powerful American newspaper publisher and media magnate whose sensationalist journalism helped shape modern mass media and public opinion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Robert R. McCormick
    Robert R. McCormick was a prominent American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his influential role in 20th-century journalism and conservative politics.
  • C. David Whitmire Hearst
    David Whitmire Hearst was a member of the prominent Hearst family and one of the sons of American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
  • D. 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.
  • E. B. C. Forbes
    B. C. Forbes was a Scottish-born American financial journalist and author best known as the founder of Forbes magazine.
  • 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: George Hearst
Triple: [William Randolph Hearst, parent, George Hearst]
Generated description
George Hearst was a 19th-century American mining magnate, rancher, and politician who amassed a fortune in the mining industry and later served as a U.S. Senator from California.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Hearst
Target entity description: George Hearst was a 19th-century American mining magnate, rancher, and politician who amassed a fortune in the mining industry and later served as a U.S. Senator from California.
  • A. William Randolph Hearst
    William Randolph Hearst was a powerful American newspaper publisher and media magnate whose sensationalist journalism helped shape modern mass media and public opinion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Robert R. McCormick
    Robert R. McCormick was a prominent American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his influential role in 20th-century journalism and conservative politics.
  • C. David Whitmire Hearst
    David Whitmire Hearst was a member of the prominent Hearst family and one of the sons of American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
  • D. 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.
  • E. B. C. Forbes
    B. C. Forbes was a Scottish-born American financial journalist and author best known as the founder of Forbes magazine.
  • 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_69a88606aa808190aa0b421b4271f220 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a8d85f08190a50ade3f443b7703 completed March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad71ab0ea0819099662964aab9609e completed March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad722796048190a39579e5790dc0a0 completed March 8, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad72a64e0c8190a2b63c78c54896d0 completed March 8, 2026, 12:59 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.