Triple

T1657683
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Randolph Hearst E35836 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Randolph Apperson Hearst
Randolph Apperson Hearst was an American businessman and newspaper executive, best known as one of the sons and heirs of media magnate William Randolph Hearst and a prominent figure in the Hearst Corporation.
E199298 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: Randolph Apperson Hearst | Statement: [William Randolph Hearst, child, Randolph Apperson Hearst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Randolph Apperson Hearst
Context triple: [William Randolph Hearst, child, Randolph Apperson Hearst]
  • A. John Randolph Hearst
    John Randolph Hearst was an American businessman and newspaper executive, known as one of William Randolph Hearst’s sons who held leadership roles within the Hearst media empire.
  • B. George Randolph Hearst
    George Randolph Hearst was an American businessman and heir who held executive roles in the Hearst media empire founded by his father, William Randolph Hearst.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Adolph Ochs
    Adolph Ochs was an American newspaper publisher best known for transforming The New York Times into a leading national newspaper after acquiring it in 1896.
  • 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: Randolph Apperson Hearst
Triple: [William Randolph Hearst, child, Randolph Apperson Hearst]
Generated description
Randolph Apperson Hearst was an American businessman and newspaper executive, best known as one of the sons and heirs of media magnate William Randolph Hearst and a prominent figure in the Hearst Corporation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Randolph Apperson Hearst
Target entity description: Randolph Apperson Hearst was an American businessman and newspaper executive, best known as one of the sons and heirs of media magnate William Randolph Hearst and a prominent figure in the Hearst Corporation.
  • A. John Randolph Hearst
    John Randolph Hearst was an American businessman and newspaper executive, known as one of William Randolph Hearst’s sons who held leadership roles within the Hearst media empire.
  • B. George Randolph Hearst
    George Randolph Hearst was an American businessman and heir who held executive roles in the Hearst media empire founded by his father, William Randolph Hearst.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Adolph Ochs
    Adolph Ochs was an American newspaper publisher best known for transforming The New York Times into a leading national newspaper after acquiring it in 1896.
  • 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_69ada972c92c8190b5c69cd9223ad0f6 completed March 8, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adae972d1081909cd13e8220c3ccc6 completed March 8, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adaf9d042481909dbd54d9e04e444e completed March 8, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.